text box

See also: textbox

English

Alternative forms

• textbox

Etymology

From text +‎ box.

Noun

text box (plural text boxes)

1. (typography) A block of printed text contained within borders that is intended to be read separately from the major text of the page.

   Synonyms: sidebar, sidebox

   • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 4:

     The graphic design of secondary schoolbooks, which includes many text boxes, captions, labelled diagrams, thought bubbles, etc., introduced a certain level of noise into the scanning and OCR[.]

2. (computing, graphical user interface) A rectangular widget that accepts textual input on an interactive electronic display.

   Synonym: input field

Hypernyms

• box

Translations

box containing text

• Dutch: kader (nl) n, tekstvak n
• French: encadré (fr) m
• German: Kasten (de) m, Textbox (de) f

widget that accepts textual input

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文本框 (wénběn kuāng), 文字盒 (wénzì hé), 文字域 (wénzì yù)

• Finnish: tekstikenttä (fi)
• French: zone de saisie f, champ de saisie m, case (fr) f
• German: Textfeld (de) n
• Greek: πλαίσιο κειμένου n (plaísio keiménou)
• Italian: casella (it) f, riquadro (it) m
• Japanese: テキストボックス (tekisuto bokkusu)
• Kazakh: мәтін жолағы (mätin jolağı)
• Korean: 입력창(入力窓) (imnyeokchang)
• Macedonian: поле за текст n (pole za tekst)
• Polish: pole tekstowe n
• Portuguese: caixa de texto f
• Russian: те́кстовое по́ле n (tékstovoje póle)
• Spanish: casilla (es) f
• Vietnamese: khung chữ

References

• text box on Wikipedia.Wikipedia