Infobar

Example of an infobar in Mozilla Firefox.

An infobar is a graphical control element used e.g. by the Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome^[1] and other programs to display non-critical information to a user. It usually appears as a temporary extension of an existing toolbar, and may contain buttons or icons to allow the user to react to the event described in the infobar.

An infobar is increasingly seen as preferable to dialog boxes because it does not interrupt the user's activities, but rather allows the user to read extra information in their own time.

References

↑ "chrome.experimental.infobars". Google.

Widgets

Command input	Button Context menu Menu Pie menu Drop-down Adjustment handle

Data input-output	Checkbox Combo box Cycle button Drop-down list Grid view List box List builder Radio button Scrollbar Slider Spinner Search box Text box

Informational	Balloon help Head-up display in computing Head-up display in video games Icon Infobar Label Loading screen Progress indicator Progress bar Splash screen Throbber Sidebar Status bar Toast Tooltip

Containers	Accordion Disclosure widget Frame/Fieldset Menu bar Panel Popover Ribbon Tab Toolbar Window

Navigational	Address bar Breadcrumb Hyperlink Tree view Navigation bar Pager

Special windows	About box Alert dialog box Dialog box File dialog Inspector window Modal window Palette window

Related concepts	Layout manager Look and feel Mouseover Widget toolkit WIMP File viewer Graphical user interface elements