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 (List of …)
Command input	Adjustment handle Button Context menu Drop-down list Hamburger button Menu Pie menu
Data input-output	Checkbox Color picker Combo box Cycle button Date Picker Grid view List box List builder Radio button Scrollbar Search box Slider Spinner 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 Workspace
Navigational	Address bar Breadcrumb Hyperlink Navigation bar Pager Tree view
Special windows	Alert dialog box Dialog box File dialog Inspector window Modal window Palette window
Related concepts	File viewer List of graphical user interface elements Layout manager Look and feel Mouseover Widget toolkit WIMP

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