Template:Dmbox/doc

This is the dmbox or disambiguation footer message box meta-template.

It is used to build disambiguation and set index article boxes, such as Disambig.

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.

Usage
Simple usage example:

dmbox | type = setindex | text = Some text

Complex example:

Some other parameter combinations:

Parameters
List of all parameters:

type
 * If no type parameter is given the template defaults to type disambig.
 * disambig = The FamilySearch Research Wiki does not use it at this time.


 * setindex = The FamilySearch Research Wiki does not use it at this time.

nocat
 * true = Stops this template from categorizing. Useful for instance when only testing or demonstrating this template. Templates that use this template should forward nocat, so they too understand nocat. So always add this:

image
 * No parameter = If no image parameter is given, the template uses the default disambig or setindex image, depending on the type parameter.
 * An image = Should be an image with usual wiki notation. 30px - 50px width are usually about right depending on the image height to width ratio. (But the message box can handle images of any size.) For example:
 * none = Means that no image is used.
 * none = Means that no image is used.

imageright
 * No parameter = If no imageright parameter is given then no image is shown on the right side.
 * An image = Should be an image with usual wiki notation. 30px - 50px width are usually about right depending on the image height to width ratio. (But the message box can handle images of any size.) For example:
 * Anything = Any other object that you want to show on the right side.
 * Anything = Any other object that you want to show on the right side.

style
 * Optional Cascading Style Sheets or CSS values used by the entire message box table. Without quotation marks  but with the ending semicolons  . For example:

textstyle
 * Optional Cascading Style Sheets or CSS values used by the text cell. For example:

text
 * The message body text. This message box has italic text as default, thus no need to manually set that.

Technical details
This template currently uses hard coded styles and class names. Later it will only use CSS classes making it easier to skin. (In the meantime it can be skinned by using the " " keyword.)

If you need to use special characters in the text parameter then you need to escape them like this:

&lt;/nowiki>. And now a pipe and end braces &lt;nowiki>|}}&lt;/nowiki>. }}

. And now a pipe and end braces |}}. }}

Internally, this meta-template uses HTML markup instead of wiki markup for the table code. That is the usual way we make meta-templates since wiki markup has several drawbacks. For instance it makes it harder to use parser functions and special characters in parameters.

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.