toolbar

See also: tool-bar and tool bar

English

Toolbars in a wordprocessing application

Alternative forms

• tool bar

Etymology

tool +‎ bar

Noun

toolbar (plural toolbars)

1. (graphical user interface) A row of buttons, usually marked with icons, used to activate the functions of an application or operating system.

   Synonym: button bar

   Hyponym: toolstrip

   • 2005, Maria Francesca Costabile, Fabio Paternò, Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2005, page 199:

     Some UIs tend to improve this by displaying toolbars only when they are related to any object manipulated (e.g., an image, a rectangle) and undisplaying them afterwards.

Related terms

• tooltip

Translations

row of icons in a graphical user interface

• Azerbaijani: alətlər paneli
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工具欄／工具栏 (zh) (gōngjùlán), 兔爸 (zh) (tùbà)

• Czech: panel nástrojů m
• Danish: værktøjslinje c
• Dutch: werkbalk (nl) m, knoppenbalk m
• Estonian: tööriistariba
• Faroese: amboðsbjálki m
• Finnish: työkalupalkki (fi)
• French: barre d’outils (fr) f
• German: Werkzeugleiste f
• Greek: γραμμή εργαλείων (grammí ergaleíon)
• Gujarati: સાધનપટ્ટી (sādhanpaṭṭī)
• Hungarian: eszköztár (hu), eszközsor
• Indonesian: bilah alat
• Italian: barra degli strumenti f, toolbar f
• Japanese: ツールバー (tsūrubā)
• Korean: 도구 모음 (dogu mo'eum)
• Macedonian: алатник m (alatnik)
• Maori: pae paraha, paeutauta
• Polish: pasek narzędzi (pl) m
• Portuguese: barra de ferramentas f
• Romanian: bară de unelte f, bară de instrumente f
• Russian: пане́ль инструме́нтов f (panɛ́lʹ instruméntov), тулба́р (ru) m (tulbár)
• Serbo-Croatian: alatna traka f
• Spanish: barra de herramientas f
• Swedish: verktygslist c
• Turkish: araç çubuğu
• Ukrainian: пане́ль інструме́нтів f (panélʹ instruméntiv)
• Vietnamese: thanh công cụ

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