Template:Dmbox/doc

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Description
 is the disambiguation footer message box meta-template.

It is used to build disambiguation and set index article boxes, such as and wikipedia:Template:shipindex.

This template works similarly to and mostly uses the same parameters. The main differences are that this box uses the disambig style and only has two type settings.

Simple usage example

 * Disambiguation


 * produces …
 * produces …


 * Setindex
 * produces …
 * produces …

Parameters
List of all parameters:

type
 * If no type parameter is given the template defaults to type disambig.
 * disambig = Makes it so the is displayed when editing a page with this template on. (Means that this template internally sets the CSS id "disambigbox". The id is used by the javascript in MediaWiki:Common.js to determine if a page is a disambiguation page or not.) And adds Category:All disambiguation pages and Category:All article disambiguation pages.


 * setindex = Does not trigger the disambig editintro when editing a page. (Because this instead sets the CSS id "setindexbox".) And adds Category:All set index articles.

nocat
 * true = Stops this template from categorizing. Useful, for instance, when only testing or demonstrating this template. Templates that use this template should forward nocat, so they too understand nocat. So always add this:""

image
 * No parameter = If no image parameter is given, the template uses the default disambig or setindex image, depending on the type parameter.
 * An image = Should be an image with usual wiki notation. 30px - 50px width are usually about right depending on the image height to width ratio. (But the message box can handle images of any size.) For example:""
 * none = Means that no image is used.

imageright
 * No parameter = If no imageright parameter is given, then no image is shown on the right side.
 * An image = Should be an image with usual wiki notation. 30px - 50px width are usually about right depending on the image height to width ratio. (But the message box can handle images of any size.) For example:""
 * Anything = Any other object that you want to show on the right side.

style
 * Optional CSS values used by the entire message box table. Without quotation marks  but with the ending semicolons  . For example:""

textstyle
 * Optional CSS values used by the text cell. For example:""

text
 * The message body text. Default: italic

Technical details
This template currently uses hard coded styles and class names. Later, it will only use CSS classes making it easier to skin. (In the meantime it can be skinned by using the " " keyword.)

Special characters
If you need to use special characters in the text parameter then you need to escape them like this:

&lt;/nowiki>. And now a pipe and end braces &lt;nowiki>|}}&lt;/nowiki>. }}

. And now a pipe and end braces |}}. }}

HTML markup
Internally, this meta-template uses HTML markup instead of wiki markup for the table code. That is the usual way we make meta-templates since wiki markup has several drawbacks. For instance it makes it harder to use parser functions and special characters in parameters.

For more technical details see the talk page for this template at Wikipedia. Since this template works almost exactly like, , , , and , their talk pages and related pages might also contain more details.