Template:Navbox/doc

Meta-template for building navboxes. A navbox is a grouping of links used in multiple related articles to facilitate navigation between those articles.

Up to 8 blocks with up to 8 content & group fields each are supported, as well as displaying the rows in a column-based or horizontal layout and making groups collapsible. Each of these options can be specified for individual blocks or the whole navbox. In addition, navboxes built with this meta-template can be nested/displayed within each other. The template also supports displaying images to the left and/or right of individual blocks or the whole navbox.

Standard navboxes (i.e. those inserted at the bottom of an article) are collapsible and will be auto-collapsed by default (this can be changed by altering the autocollapse limit in MediaWiki:Common.js). Side navboxes are not collapsible by default and do not count towards this limit.

Easy navbox creation
The box below allows you to create a new with the appropriate layout. Simply enter the name of the new navbox ("Template:Navbox" is automatically added) and click the "Create" button.

Style parameters
All  options should be used sparingly as they can lead to visual inconsistencies. For examples of useful style, please see the section for  below.

Simple box
results in:

Standard box with groups, blocks and headers
results in:

Standard box with groups, blocks and image
results in:

Standard box with groups, blocks and block images
results in:

Collapsible groups
results in:

Collapsible and non-collapsible mixed
results in:

Columns
results in:

Columns and standard rows mixed
results in:

Technical

 * This template is fairly complicated. Editing it requires a good understanding of parser functions and wiki syntax.
 * Auxiliary templates:
 * Navbox/aux: Merges various input parameters, calculates row/column counts for a given block and passes results to or  (depending on the specified layout type).
 * Navbox/aux2: Returns a whole block of standard rows according to options and specified cells.
 * Navbox/aux3: Returns a whole block of columns according to options and specified cells.
 * Standardized documentation for templates based on this one:
 * Navbox/doc/standard
 * This template has been tested and works flawlessly with the following browsers:
 * Firefox 3.5
 * Google Chrome 5
 * Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 8
 * Opera 10.5
 * Safari 4