3.2. XUL Content Tags
This chapter considers only static content, which means text, images, and style effects. If you're looking for buttons, see Chapter 4, First Widgets and Themes.
3.2.1. Text and Strings
The <description> tag is the simplest, if somewhat verbose, way to put textual characters on the screen. There are other ways as well. The full list of useful textual tags includes
<description> <text> <label> <stringbundle> <stringbundleset> <caption>
Because XUL is XML, there is always the option of working with generic XML features. For text, that means entities and entity references. Some of these options allow strings to be stored in separate files, so those mechanisms are also examined.
Note that the XUL <description> tag and the RDF ...
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