cursor
The blinking vertical light is called the cursor, I-bar or Insertion Point.
The blinking vertical light is called the cursor, I-bar or Insertion Point.
It indicates where the "cursor" is: that is where the next character will appear.
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A blinking symbol on the screen that shows where the next character will appear-
The blinking line that indicates where the text will appear when you start typing is called the insertion point (sometimes also known as the active cell).
Many of the characters have more than one appearance, e.g. 'Ravenclaw Boy/Girl/Prefect', and the character icons scroll through the different versions. They appear to be blinking until you unlock all the variations.
Well, usually when you press your right mouse button with the cursor over a writeable field a symbol that looks like | will appear and blink slowly. Thats what indicates where the things you type on the keyboard will appear.
Website owners can overwrite blinking text using Javascript.
The cursor (also called the pointer) is the item on screen which marks the position of the mouse. When in a document the insertion point is where text will appear when you start to type on the keyboard it is usually a blinking vertical line. In a command line window it is a blinking underscore and also where input will appear (if allowed) In Microsoft Word there is no character that denotes the end of a line unless a hard line break has been set (Shift+Enter) the hard line break appears as an arrow that is bent down and to the left.
The words "blinking idiot" appear in The Merchant of Venice, act 2 sc 9 l 54