Template:Navigation bar/doc

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:

Mandatory arguments

 * 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 displaying a pipe-character is  .  If you want to use several lines simply surround each line with div tags (following example only uses one div).


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Optional arguments

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