Template:Dmbox/doc

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

It is used to build disambiguation boxes, such as Disambiguation.

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:

Complex example:

Parameters
List of all parameters:

type
 * If no type parameter is given the template defaults to type disambig.
 * disambig = Makes it so the disambig editintro is displayed when editing a page with this template on. (Means that this template internally sets the CSS id "disambigbox". The id is used by the javascript in MediaWiki:Common.js to determine if a page is a disambiguation page or not.) And adds Category:All disambiguation pages and Category:All article disambiguation pages.


 * setindex = Does not trigger the disambig editintro when editing a page. (Because this instead sets the CSS id "setindexbox".) And adds Category:All set index articles.

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 CSS values used by the entire message box table. Without quotation marks  but with the ending semicolons  . For example:

textstyle
 * Optional 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.

Related pages

 * Disambiguation
 * MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage – Should list all disambiguation message boxes, so that some automatic tools can know what pages are disambiguation pages. Now also has a separate list with all set index message boxes, so some tools can know what pages are set index articles.
 * Disambiguation – The generic disambiguation message box.