User:Wikid77/Template:Infobox Artery/doc

The anatomy infobox "Template:Infobox_Artery" displays a right-side infobox showing information about arteries of the body, allowing a clickable map and 2 images to be displayed at the top of the box.

Usage
The template is invoked using double-brace syntax (with the result similar to that shown at the right), coded as follows:

Parameters
The template parameters are (Camel case requiring upper/lowercase):


 * Name       = English name for structure.
 * Latin      = Latin name for structure.
 * GraySubject = Gray's Anatomy subject number, such as: 189.
 * GrayPage   = Gray's Anatomy page number, such as: 825.
 * Image      = top image (omit "Image:").
 * Width      = width of top image (in pixels, default=250).
 * Caption    = caption under top image.
 * Image2     = 2nd top image (omit "Image:").
 * Width2     = width of 2nd image (in pixels, default=Width).
 * Caption2   = caption under 2nd top image.
 * BranchFrom = such as "right ventricle"
 * BranchTo   = any text
 * Vein       = such as "pulmonary vein"
 * Precursor  = such as "truncus arteriosus"
 * Supplies   = any text
 * MeshName   = MeSH name
 * MeshNumber = MeSH number code
 * DorlandsPre = Dorlands prefix, such as: i_09.
 * DorlandsSuf = Dorlands suffix, such as: 12454066.


 * BoxWidth  = width of infobox (in em/pixels, default 20em), also "boxwidth"
 * ColumnGap = &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; - extra spaces between infobox columns.

Most parameters here start with a capital letter.

Template implementation notes
The template was implemented in November 2005 using the MediaWiki parser-functions language (which was updated in January 2008 to run with a recursive descent parser).

Changes should be made and verified in a test-version of the template copied into user-space (as a page named "User:XXX/Template:Infobox_Artery"). Changes can be checked by editing actual articles by edit-preview (not Save) with the template-brace calls prefixed by "{ {User:XXX/Template:...}}" but never saved that way.

When modifying the template or documentation ("/doc" subpage), it is often necessary to purge the template cache (using "action=purge"), such as to display modified documentation:


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_Artery&action=purge

Running old versions of the template can be very confusing and frustrating when trying to install and verify improvements copied from test-versions of the template (so remember "action=purge").