Editing Point and click (section)

{{short description|Computer technique}}
{{for|the genre of video game|Adventure game#Point-and-click adventure games}}
'''Point and click''' are one of the actions of a [[computer user]] moving a [[pointer (computing WIMP)|pointer]] to a certain location on a [[Visual display unit|screen]] (''pointing'') and then pressing a button on a [[Computer mouse|mouse]] or other [[pointing device]] (''click''). An example of point and click is in [[hypermedia]], where users click on [[hyperlink]]s to navigate from document to document. [[User interface]]s, for example [[graphical user interface]]s, are sometimes described as "point-and-click interfaces", often to suggest that they are very easy to use, requiring that the user simply point to indicate their wishes. Describing [[software]] this way implies that the interface can be controlled solely through a pointing device with little or no input from the [[Computer keyboard|keyboard]], as with many [[graphical user interface]]s.

[[Image:HTML tooltip.png|thumb|right|A web browser tooltip displayed for a [[hyperlink]].]]
In some systems, such as [[Internet Explorer]], moving the pointer over a link (or other [[GUI widget|GUI control]]) and waiting for a split-second will cause a [[tooltip]] to be displayed.<ref>{{citation|author=Guy Hart-Davis|title=Mastering Microsoft Windows Vista Home: premium and basic|page=180|year=2007|publisher=John Wiley and Sons|isbn=978-0-470-04614-2|access-date=2010-08-08|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LQWn9qygSboC&q=mouse+hover+windows+explorer&pg=PA180}}</ref>