Template:Navigation bar/doc

Description
 is a navigational template intended to be used to generate a scrollable navigation "bar", rather than a navigation box, in cases where there are a long list of items with a natural ordering (e.g., alphabetical, numerical, etc.) that as a box would consume a large amount of vertical space in an article. Navigation bars currently do not appear in printed copies of pages.

When creating a template using, please add it to Category:Templates using navigation bars by inserting the following code in the new template's documentation: &lt;/noinclude>

Required parameters

 * title : A title for the navigation bar; may include links


 * list : Single line of text (no tables, no expanded templates) with links to related articles with no embedded line breaks; links may be separated, for instance, by commas, bullets, or pipe symbols. To use pipe symbols (vertical bars) as a separator, Template:! must be used since "|" has a meaning within a template invocation. The syntax for this is . If you want to use several lines simply surround them with tags.

Example

 * produces …

Optional arguments

 * color : Specifies a color other then the default for the title bar. This color parameter defaults to the color shown in the title line above.


 * category : A category that all articles using this template will be added to.