Template:Navbox

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Usage

Please remove the parameters that are left blank.

{{Navbox
| name       = {{subst:PAGENAME}}{{subst:void|Don't change anything on this line. It will change itself when you save.}}
| title      =
| listclass  = hlist
| state      = {{{state|}}}

| above      =
| image      =

| group1     =
| list1      =

| group2     =
| list2      =

| group3     =
| list3      =

<!-- ... -->

| below      =
}}

Parameter list

The navbox uses lowercase parameter names, as shown in the box (above). The required name and title will create a one-line box if other parameters are omitted.

Notice "group1" (etc.) is optional, as are sections named "above/below". Template:Clear The basic and most common parameters are as follows (see below for the full list):

name – the name of the template.

title – text in the title bar, such as: [[Widget stuff]].

listclass – a CSS class for the list cells, usually hlist for horizontal lists. Alternatively, use bodyclass for the whole box.

state – controls when a navbox is expanded or collapsed.

titlestyle – a CSS style for the title-bar, such as: background: gray;

groupstyle – a CSS style for the group-cells, such as: background: #eee;

above – text to appear above the group/list section (could be a list of overall wikilinks).

image – an optional right-side image, coded as the whole image. Typically it is purely decorative, so it should be coded as [[File:XX.jpg|80px|link=|alt=]].

imageleft – an optional left-side image (code the same as the "image" parameter).

groupn – the left-side text before list-n (if group-n omitted, list-n starts at left of box).

listn – text listing wikilinks using a wikilist format.

below – optional text to appear below the group/list section.

Parameter descriptions

The following is a complete list of parameters for using Template:Tl. In most cases, the only required parameters are name, title, and list1, though child navboxes do not even require those to be set.

Template:Tl shares numerous common parameter names with its sister templates, Template:Tl and Template:Tl, for consistency and ease of use. Parameters marked with an asterisk (*) are common to all three master templates.

Setup parameters

name*

The name of the template, which is needed for the "V • T • E" ("View • Talk • Edit") links to work properly on all pages where the template is used. You can enter {{subst:PAGENAME}} for this value as a shortcut. The name parameter is only mandatory if a title is specified, and the border parameter is not set, and the navbar parameter is not used to disable the navbar.

state* [autocollapse, collapsed, expanded, plain, off]

• Defaults to autocollapse. A navbox with autocollapse will start out collapsed if there are two or more tables on the same page that use other collapsible tables. Otherwise, the navbox will be expanded. For the technically minded, see MediaWiki:Common.js.
• If set to collapsed, the navbox will always start out in a collapsed state.
• If set to expanded, the navbox will always start out in an expanded state.
• If set to plain, the navbox will always be expanded with no [hide] link on the right, and the title will remain centered (by using padding to offset the V • T • E links).
• If set to off, the navbox will always be expanded with no [hide] link on the right, but no padding will be used to keep the title centered. This is for advanced use only; the "plain" option should suffice for most applications where the [show]/[hide] button needs to be hidden.

To show the box when standalone (non-included) but then auto-hide contents when in an article, put "expanded" inside Template:Tag tags. This setting will force the box visible when standalone (even when followed by other boxes), displaying "[hide]", but then it will auto-collapse the box when stacked inside an article:

| state = Template:Tag

Often times, editors will want a default initial state for a navbox, which may be overridden in an article. Here is the trick to do this:

• In your intermediate template, create a parameter also named "state" as a pass-through like this:

| state = {{{state<includeonly>|your_desired_initial_state</includeonly>}}}

• The Template:Tag| will make the template expanded when viewing the template page by itself.

• Example 1: Template:Tl with autocollapse as the default initial state. Catalan peseta transcludes it and has only one navbox; thus, the peso navbox shows. Chilean peso has more than two navboxes; thus, the peso navbox collapses.
• Example 2: Template:Tl with expanded as the default initial state, as such:

| state = {{{state<includeonly>|expanded</includeonly>}}}

All transcluding articles show the content by default, unless there is a hypothetical article that specifies {{templatename|state=collapsed}} when transcluding.

• Example 3: Template:Tl with collapsed as the default initial state, as such:

| state = {{{state<includeonly>|collapsed</includeonly>}}}

All transcluding articles will show the template as collapsed by default, but the template will still be uncollapsed when displayed on its own page.

• The template Template:Tl explains how to use the state parameter. It can be added to a Template:Tag section after the template definition or to the instructions on the Template:Tl.

navbar*

If set to plain, the V • T • E links on the left side of the titlebar will not be displayed, and padding will be automatically used to keep the title centered. Use off to remove the V • T • E links, but not apply padding (this is for advanced use only; the "plain" option should suffice for most applications where a navbar is not desired). It is highly recommended that one not hide the navbar, in order to make it easier for users to edit the template, and to keep a standard style across pages.

border*

See later section on using navboxes within one another for examples and a more complete description. If set to child or subgroup, then the navbox can be used as a borderless child that fits snugly in another navbox. The border is hidden and there is no padding on the sides of the table, so it fits into the list area of its parent navbox. If set to none, then the border is hidden and padding is removed, and the navbox may be used as a child of another container (do not use the none option inside of another navbox; similarly, only use the child/subgroup option inside of another navbox). If set to anything else (default), then a regular navbox is displayed with a 1px border. An alternate way to specify the border to be a subgroup style is like this (i.e. use the first unnamed par