Template:Navigation bar/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Navigation bar. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template employs CSS style attributes that may display differently on different browsers. Please test all changes with multiple browsers including at least IE 6, IE 7, Firefox, Safari, and Opera. Any experiments should be conducted in the template sandbox or your user space.

This template 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 (for example, alphabetical or numerical) 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 articles.

When creating a template using this one, please add it to Category:Templates using navigation bars by adding the following code:

<noinclude>[[Category:Templates using navigation bars|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>

{{navigation bar
| color =
| title =
| list =
| category =
}}

• 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 meaning within a template invocation. The syntax for this is {{!}}. If you want to use several lines simply surround them with div tags. Like this:

{{Navigation bar
| title = Sample
| list = <div>
item 1  -  item 2  -  item 3  -  item 4  -   item 5  - 
item 6  -  item 7  -  item 8  -  item 9  -   item 10 - 
item 11 -  item 12 -  item 13 -  item 14 -   item 15 - 
item 16 -  item 17 -  item 18 -  item 19 -   item 20 
</div>
}}

which produces

• color: The color to use for the title bar. This color parameter defaults to the color shown in the {{{title}}} line above.
• category: A category all articles using this template will be added to.

• Template:Navbox
• Template:Hidden