User Interface Element

What is an User Interface Element?

An user interface element is a tangible part of a graphical user interface. Some people call them "widgets," others call them "form controls." Some elements are:

• Windows. Window titlebars, menubars, toolbars, address bars, ribbons, and statusbars.
• Buttons. Dropdown list buttons. Hamburger (three-bars) menu buttons. Vertical three-dots menu buttons. Down-arrow "more options" buttons. Ellipsis buttons. Search buttons. Save buttons. Open file buttons. New document buttons. Collapse/expand buttons. Arrow buttons (previous/next, undo/redo, parent buttons). Apply/OK/Cancel buttons. Refresh buttons. Clipboard buttons (copy and paste buttons). Download buttons. Start buttons. Sidebar buttons. Window controls: close button, maximize/restore button, minimize button.
• Menus. Popup menus. Context menus. Dropdown menus. Start menus
• Text labels. Labelled form frames.
• Check boxes. Switches. Radio buttons.
• Text boxes. Search boxes. Combo boxes.
• Spin buttons. Sliders.
• List boxes. Icon list views. Hierarchical tree views.
• Scroll panes. Scroll bars.
• Split panes. Side panes.
• Tabs. Tabbed panes.
• Progress bars. Spinners.
• Window borders (frames). Resize handles.
• Dialog windows (dialog boxes). Error dialogs. Warning dialogs. Confirmation dialogs.
• Taskbars. System trays.
• Tooltips. Notifications. Popups.