Template:Navigation Template/doc

This is the template documentation page for {{Navigation Template}}.
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{{Navigation Template/doc}} is a generic navigational template.

Usage

To apply this template, you can start by copy-and-pasting the following code and then provide arguments:

Blank

{{Navigation
| name  = {{subst:PAGENAME}}
| title = 
| body  = 
}}

Parameters

Mandatory

name: (or "templateName") The name of the template, which is needed for the "viewTemplate:· talkTemplate:· edit" links to work properly on all of the pages where the template is used on. You can enter {{subst:PAGENAME}} for this value as a shortcut.
title: (or "header") Text that appears centered in the titlebar (the top bar). Usually this is the template's topic, i.e. a succinct description of the body parameter's contents.
body: The material contained by the template, usually a list or list of links. Format is inline.

Optional

color: Background color of the titlebar. NB Care/consensus needed when using this parameter as multiple navigational templates on one page using different titlebar colors is likely to look unpleasant.
cat: (or "category") The category or categories to which a page sporting the template will become a member.

Example

Code

{{Navigation
| name  = {{subst:PAGENAME}}
| title = [[Countries of the world|Countries]] of [[Central Asia]]
| cat   = [[Category:Central Asian countries]]<noinclude>[[Category:Asian navigational boxes| {{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Continental navigation templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>
| body  =
[[Afghanistan]]{{·}}
[[Kazakhstan]]{{·}}
[[Kyrgyzstan]]{{·}}
[[Mongolia]]{{·}}
[[Russia]]{{·}}
[[Tajikistan]]{{·}}
[[Turkmenistan]]{{·}}
[[Uzbekistan]]
}}

Result

Template:Tnavbar Countries of Central Asia

Afghanistan Template:· Kazakhstan Template:· Kyrgyzstan Template:· Mongolia Template:· Russia Template:· Tajikistan Template:· Turkmenistan Template:· Uzbekistan

Template:Navigation Template (edit talk links history): Navigationbox with v-d-e and hide/show.
Template:Navigation with image (edit talk links history): Navigationbox with v-d-e, hide/show and optional image.
Template:Navbox generic (edit talk links history): Navigationbox containing several lists.
Template:NavigationBox (edit talk links history): Navigationbox with image on the right; no v-d-e nor hide/show.
(Image breaks titlebar; template deprecated? David Kernow (talk) 02:23, 29 November 2006 (UTC))
Template:Dynamic navigation box (edit talk links history): Navigationbox with hide/show. Allows width to be specified (but that can lead to visual inconsistency).
Template:Dynamic navigation box with image (edit talk links history): Navigationbox with image on the left and hide/show, but no v-d-e.