Widget

For the Wikipedia essay, see Wikipedia:Widget.

Widget may refer to:

Arts and media

• Widget (Marvel Comics), a comic book character, an alternate version of Shadowcat from the Days of Future Past timeline
• Widget (TV series) or Widget the World Watcher, a 1990s animated television series
  • Widget (video game), based on the TV series
• Widget, a character on the animated series Cyberchase
• The Widget, nickname of New York World Journal Tribune

Technology

• Widget (beer), a device placed in cans and bottles of beer to aid in the generation of froth
• Software widget, a generic type of software application comprising portable code intended for one or more different software platforms
  • Widget (GUI), an element of interaction in a graphical user interface, such as a button or a scroll bar
  • Widget toolkit, a software library containing a collection of GUI widgets that collaborate when used in the construction of applications
  • Web widget, an applet intended to be used within web pages
• E-9A Widget, a turboprop airliner
• Widget drive, a hard drive used only in the Apple Lisa computer system

Other uses

• Widget (economics), a placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product

See also

• Widget Workshop, a science-based computer game developed by Maxis
• The MediaWiki Widgets extension
• All pages with titles containing widget