Help:Navbox

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Usage

Please remove the parameters that are left blank.

{{Help: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      =
<!-- ... -->
| group20    =
| list20     =

| 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".

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 Navbox. In most cases, the only required parameters are name, title, and list1.

Setup parameters

name

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.
• 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 <noinclude|>...</noinclude|> 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 = <noinclude|>expanded</noinclude|>

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 <includeonly>| will make the template expanded when viewing the template page by itself.

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See Also

• Help:DPL nav