Help:Navboxes
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A navigation template or navbox is a grouping of links used in multiple related articles to facilitate navigation between those articles. They are created using the template feature. Editing of a navigation template is done in a central place, the template page.
How to use[edit | edit source]
Examples of how to build a navbox are given in the documentation provided with the Template:Navbox. Once created a navbox can be added to an article by typing the name of the navbox template within a pair of double curly brackets "{{" and "}}" for example typing {{Utah}} with add the Template:Utah to a page.
Advantages[edit | edit source]
- Provide a consistent look and navigation system for related articles
- Faster to navigate than a category
- Immediate information about relationship with other articles
- Presents a series of articles in a logical order
Disadvantages[edit | edit source]
- Simple boxes can be replaced with a category
- Alot of space is taken for information that is not relevant
- Includes the full list of links in every article and many links are not useful
- Multiple templates may take up too much space on one article
- Does not give the reader enough information which links are most relevant or important
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Related articles[edit | edit source]
- FamilySearch Wiki:Navboxes style guide
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