button click

Digital input confirmation

A button click is the action of pressing a clickable element in a software interface—selecting an option, submitting a form, or triggering a command.

The term combines the physical motion (clicking a mouse or tapping a screen) with the target (a button).

In user interface design and programming, button clicks are fundamental events that drive interaction: The form submits on button click.

Also written as two words or hyphenated.

Related

interface · user interface · finger · toggle · select · trigger · snap · download · confirm · touchscreen · pointer · icon · action · webpage · notification · plastic · keyboard · controller

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input method

button clickvoice command

Spoken order to technology

thought control · brain-computer interface · keystroke · keyboard input · swipe

action vs. inaction

button clickinaction

Deliberate nonmovement

ignore · do nothing · idle state · skip · hover

interaction style

button clickbackground process

Task without user interface

Family

button, click, buttons, buttoned, buttoning, unbutton, unbuttoned, unbuttoning, clicks

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G