menucascade
The menucascade element is used to document a series of menu choices. The menucascade element contains one or more user interface control (uicontrol) elements, for example: Start > Programs > Accessories > Notepad. If there is more than one uicontrol element, a formatter might show connecting characters between the menu items to represent the menu cascade. This element is part of the DITA user interface domain, a special set of DITA elements designed to document user interface tasks, concepts and reference information.
Content models
See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.
Inheritance
+ topic/ph ui-d/menucascade
Example 451. Example
This example:
<menucascade>
<uicontrol>Start</uicontrol>
<uicontrol>Programs</uicontrol>
<uicontrol>Accessories</uicontrol>
<uicontrol>Notepad</uicontrol>
</menucascade>
May produce output similar to the following: Start > Programs > Accessories > Notepad
Attributes
The following attributes are available on this element:
Universal attribute group,
outputclass, and
keyref.
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