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Chris Snow
Chris Snow

Reputation: 24606

what is the "browser chrome"?

The following quote is from O'Reilly Definitive Guide to CSS:

Mozilla and related browsers use CSS to affect the presentation of the browser chrome itself

What is actually meant by the word "chrome" in this context? Is it simply the display area?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 124

Answers (3)

Inkey
Inkey

Reputation: 2207

Chrome Browsers are User Interface. With the file menu and setting menu ect It also includes back forward and refresh.

At the botton of the page it contains the status bar how much is loaded ect.

It also can include the minimise maximise and the close buttons. Exlcuding the webpage content.

Upvotes: 0

Talha
Talha

Reputation: 19262

browser chrome ‘Browser chrome is a euphemism for the graphical framework and elements of the web browser window.

‘Browser chrome’ is not to be confused with Google Chrome – which is a web browser.

Chrome includes the web browser:

  • title bar,
  • toolbar buttons: ‘Back’, ‘Forward’, ‘Stop‘, etc.,
  • horizontal and vertical scrollbars,
  • status bar: the strip at the bottom of the browser window, and the window frame.

Browser chrome can be modified through the use of ‘skins’; (usually) third-party software extensions that can be used to customise colour, graphical treatment and interface metaphor.

For more reading Browser and GUI Chrome

Upvotes: 3

Keith Nicholas
Keith Nicholas

Reputation: 44298

the chrome is the UI of the actual browser not just the content shown in the page, the themeable bits, like the buttons, menus, tabs, etc

Upvotes: 3

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