ROLE_PANE

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Represents a pane within a frame or document window. Users can navigate between panes and within the contents of the current pane, but cannot navigate between items in different panes. Thus, panes represent a level of grouping lower than frame windows or documents, but above individual controls.

Interfaces

• nsIAccessNode
• nsIAccessible

Mapped to

• AT-SPI: ROLE_PANEL
• ATK: ATK_ROLE_PANEL
• UA: NSAccessibilityGroupRole
• MSAA/IA2: ROLE_SYSTEM_GROUPING

Used by

• ARIA: region
• HTML: first child of <frame> or <iframe>
• XUL: <panel/>, <tabbox/>

Features

• nsIAccessible::value exposes the URL of the current document.
• nsIAccessible::name exposes the <title> of the current pane.
• Sets STATE_READONLY unless it's in editable area.