8.2. Navigation Widgets

Figure 8.1 illustrates all XUL's navigation tags in one screenshot.

Figure 8.1. XUL Navigation tags with diagnostics.

Figure 8.1 diagram is special in several ways. First, diagnostic styles are turned on so that you can see some of the internal structure of the tags. Second, this screenshot is taken with Mozilla version 1.02. That version includes support for toolbar grippys, support that is not present in version 1.21. Third, some <description> tags have been added where no tags are meant to be. These tags, the text of which appears inside braces and is surrounded by a light background, show the position of the nondisplayed ...

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