Help:Wiki University Wikitext--Navboxes
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Flexbox
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- They are very much like sidebars, only they are usually spread across the bottom of the page. Here is an example from the Adair County, Missouri Genealogy page.
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- First section - items you might find in a sidebar.
- Second section - internal links to pages for other counties in the state.
- Third section - internal links to pages of extinct county pages.
- Fourth section - internal links to pages outlining what is available in the major repositories in the state.
- Fifth section - internal links to pages discussing migration routes going through the state.
These are NOT required sections for a navbox. They can contain whatever subjects you like. This is just an example of one. |
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- The navbox above is a table.
- First row is the title of the navbox. It is centered and spans the two columns that follow.
- First column is the title of the items in the adjacent cells.
- Second column is the links or whatever material is to be displayed.
- There are background colors in the cells.
Let's make one like the one above but use less material:
Links to Missouri, United States Genealogy - related articles | |
Topics | African Americans · American Indians · Archives and Libraries · Bible Records · Biography |
Counties | Adair · Andrew · Atchison · Audrain · Barry · Barton |
Here is the coding:
{| style="width:100%; border:1px solid black; border-spacing:5px; "
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| colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgray; text-align:center; " | Links to '''{{{state}}}'''- related articles
|-
| style="background-color:lightgray; width:20% ; vertical-align:middle; " | Topics
| style="background-color:lightblue; " | [[African-American Resources for Missouri|African Americans]]{{·}}[1] [[Indians of Missouri|American Indians]]{{·}} [[Missouri Archives and Libraries|Archives and Libraries]]{{·}} [[Missouri Bible Records|Bible Records]]{{·}} [[Missouri Biography|Biography]]
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| style="background-color:lightgray; width:20% ; vertical-align:middle; " | Counties
| style="background-color:lightblue; " | Adair · Andrew · Atchison · Audrain · Barry · Barton
|}
All this wikitext and inline styling should be familiar to you except for some new templates we have introduced
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To save the navbox template, use the word "navbox" somewhere in the title like so:
CAUTION: When doing your navbox exercise, be sure to adhere to the restrictions for saving a template when saving your work. See sample below and refer to Ch 13-Templates.
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- It is placed or embedded just like any other template.
- If there are any parameters, they need to be included in the coding for the template; in this case, for the parameter State.
- The normal placement coding for a saved navbox template is:
| State =
- NOTE: When doing your navbox exercise, place the navbox template into your sandbox with the following code:
| State =
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- Create a navbox using the above format.
- For topics use the first 5 topics from the Germany_Genealogy page.
- For Counties use the first 5 counties from the State in which you were born. Example Clark County, Nevada Genealogy navbox at the bottom of the page.
- Change the parameter to country.
- Navboxes may include items that could be in a sidebar.
- A. True
- B. False
- Navboxes are usually placed at the top of the page.
- A. True
- B. False
- Navboxes are limited to less than 200 pixels in width.
- A. True
- B. False
- ↑ This is a template that puts the little dot separator between the items in this cell. One of many such "built in" templates in wikitext