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Message box meta-templates | |
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template | context |
{{Ambox}} | article |
{{Cmbox}} | category |
{{Imbox}} | image |
{{Tmbox}} | talk |
{{Fmbox}} | footer / header |
{{Ombox}} | other pages |
{{Mbox}} | auto-detect |
{{Asbox}} | article stub |
{{Dmbox}} | disambiguation |
This is the {{Dmbox}} ([D]isambiguation footer [m]essage [box]) metatemplate.
It is used to build disambiguation and set index article message boxes, such as {{Disambiguation}} and {{Ship index}}.
This template works similarly to {{Ambox}} and mostly uses the same parameters. The main differences are that this box uses the disambiguation style and only has two "type" settings.
Simple usage example:
{{dmbox | text = Some text.}}
{{dmbox | type = setindex | text = Some text.}}
Complex example:
{{dmbox
| type = setindex
| image = [[File:Schooner.svg|30px|link=|alt=]] [[File:DAB list gray.svg|30px|alt=Disambiguation icon]]
| text = The message body text.
}}
Some other parameter combinations:
List of all parameters:
{{dmbox
| type = disambig / setindex
| image = none / [[File:Some image.svg|40px|link=|alt=]]
| imageright = [[File:Some image.svg|40px|link=|alt=]]
| text = The message body text.
| nocat = {{{nocat|}}} / true
}}
|type=
|type=
parameter is given the template defaults to type disambig
.disambig
= Makes it so the {{disambig editintro}} 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 tests and demonstrations. Dmbox templates should forward[when defined as?] |nocat=
, so they too have the option to suppress categories. Thus, it is recommended that Dmbox templates always add something similar to this:
nocat = {{{nocat|}}}
|image=
|image=
parameter is given, the template uses the default |disambig=
or |setindex=
image, depending on the |type=
parameter.image = [[File:Schooner.svg|30px|link=|alt=]]
none
= Means that no image is used.|imageright=
|imageright=
parameter is given then no image is shown on the right side.imageright = [[File:Nuvola apps bookcase.png|40px|alt=Books icon]]
|text=
If you need to use special characters in the text parameter then you need to escape them like this:
{{dmbox
| text = <div>
Equal sign = and a start and end brace { } work fine as they are.
But here is a pipe {{!}} and two end braces <nowiki>}}</nowiki>.
And now a pipe and end braces <nowiki>|}}</nowiki>.
</div>
}}
For more technical details see the talk page. Since this template works almost exactly like {{ambox}}, {{tmbox}}, {{imbox}}, {{cmbox}} and {{ombox}} their talk pages and related pages might also contain more details.
Closely related metatemplates:
Other pages: