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Produces an HTML list that can be collapsed Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers block formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Title title The list's title (Always in view beside the list's [show/hide] link). String suggested Horizontal list hlist Use value 'on' or 'true' to produce a horizontal rather than vertical list Suggested values on true ...
That makes your user page one of the most easily accessible pages to you on Wikipedia, making it a powerful tool. One of the things you can use your user page for is navigation. It is the perfect place for bookmarks and navbars/navboxes, to get you where you need to go on Wikipedia and related destinations fast.
Editing of a navigation template is done in a central place, the template page. There are two main varieties of navigation template: navigation boxes (or navboxes), designed to sit at the very bottom of articles, and sidebars, designed to sit at the side of the article text. The two are complementary and either or both may be appropriate in ...
Template Collapsible Image Groups Style (body) parameter/s {} collapsible Left/right of body: Yes: Yes {{Navbox with collapsible groups}} collapsible Left/right of body and/or in each list: Yes: Yes {{Navbox with columns}} collapsible Left/right of columns: No: Yes
A full-width cell displayed between the titlebar and first group/list, i.e. above the template's body (groups, lists and image). In a template without an image, above behaves in the same way as the list1 parameter without the group1 parameter. group n * (i.e. group1, group2, etc.) If specified, text appears in a header cell displayed to the ...
Navigation templates are particularly useful for a small, well-defined group of articles; templates with a large number of links are not forbidden, but can appear overly busy and be hard to read and use. Good navboxes generally follow most or all of these guidelines: All articles within a template relate to a single, coherent subject.
Once you have made the template—for example Template:foo—you can add {{foo}} to the pages that you want to use it on. Every page using this template uses the same boilerplate text each time that a user visits it. When the template is updated, all pages containing the template tag are automatically updated.
Redundancy of lists and categories is beneficial because the two formats work together; the principle is covered in the guideline Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates. Like categories, lists can be used for keeping track of changes in the listed pages, using the Related Changes feature. Unlike a category, a list also allows ...