Template:Helpbox

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This template employs intricate features of template syntax.

You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
You can conduct experiments, and should test all major changes, in either , the general template sandbox, or your user space before changing anything here.

The pages listed in this category are templates.

This page is part of OODA WIKI's administration and not part of the encyclopedia.

Further template category notes

This category contains pages in the template namespace. It should not be used to categorize articles or pages in other namespaces.

To add a template to this category:

If the template has a separate documentation page (usually called "Template:template name/doc"), add
[[Template:Helpbox]]
to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add
<noinclude>[[Template:Helpbox]]</noinclude>
to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.

This category is an index of templates which use TemplateStyles. It is automatically populated by {{Uses TemplateStyles}}.

This template allows a help-related navigation template to be set up relatively quickly by supplying it with one or more lists of links.

Usual syntax

{{Helpbox
| name    =  <!-- or: | templatename = -->
| title   =  <!-- or, if templatename used: | name = -->

| group1  = 
| list1   = 

| group2  = 
| list2   = 

<!-- etc, to: -->

| group20 = 
| list20  = 

}}

Parameters

Required

title (or, if templatename used (see below), name): The template's title, centered at the top of the template.
list_n: (i.e. list1, list2, etc.) The body of the template, usually a list of links. Format is inline, although the text can be entered on separate lines if the entire list is enclosed within ‎<div>...‎</div>. At least one list parameter is required. Each list_n may be preceded by a corresponding group_n parameter, if provided (see below). There is a limit of 20 lists/groups in a template.

Optional

group_n: (i.e. group1, group2, etc.) If specified, text appears in a header displayed above list_n.
first unnamed parameter: Inline CSS for the template.
name (or, if name used as above, templatename): The template's pagename, activating the inclusion of the V•T•E links in its bottom righthand corner. Template:Helpbox's pagename, for example, is "Helpbox".

Example

{{Helpbox |width:17.5em
| name = Helpbox/doc
| class = plainlist
| title = [[:Category:OODA WIKI policies|OODA WIKI policy]]

| group1 = Article standards
| list1 =
*[[OODA WIKI:Neutral point of view|Neutral point of view]]
*[[OODA WIKI:Verifiability|Verifiability]]
*[[OODA WIKI:No original research|No original research]]
*[[OODA WIKI:Biographies of living persons|Biographies of living persons]]

| group2 = Working with others
| list2 =
*[[OODA WIKI:Civility|Civility]]
*[[OODA WIKI:Consensus|Consensus]]
*[[OODA WIKI:No personal attacks|No personal attacks]]
*[[OODA WIKI:Dispute resolution|Dispute resolution]]
*[[WP:LEGAL|No legal threats]]

| group3 = Global principles
| list3 =
*[[OODA WIKI:What OODA WIKI is not|What OODA WIKI is not]]
*[[OODA WIKI:Ignore all rules|Ignore all rules]]
}}

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Helpbox/doc.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.

{{{title}}}
{{{group1}}}
{{{list1}}}
{{{group2}}}
{{{list2}}}
{{{list3}}} without {{{group3}}}
ditto {{{list4}}}
{{{group5}}}
{{{group6}}}
{{{list6}}} ...... etc ......
{{{group20}}}
{{{list20}}}