Template:Navbox with collapsible groups/doc

This template produces a navigational template that has groups of relevant articles on a certain topic. All groups are hidden by default. However, with a parameter call, an individual group can be shown that has the other articles in the same group.

Usage
Please remove the parameters that are left blank. The template currently supports up to 10 groups/lists but more can be added if needed. You should use a minimum of two groups/lists; otherwise, use instead.

Parameters
This template shares many common parameters with its sister templates and. The common parameters are marked with a cross†. Please refer to the documentation of for more in depth descriptions and examples of those parameters.

Setup parameters

 * name†
 * The name of the template. The name of this template, for example, is "Navbox with collapsible groups".


 * state† [ ]
 * The initial state of the show/hide feature. See  for more information.


 * navbar†
 * Possible values are,  , and the default value of blank.  See  for more information.


 * border†
 * Possible values are,  , and the default value of blank.  Set to   if you wish to use the navbox inside of another navbox; with this option, the child navbox is borderless and fits snuggly inside of its parent navbox.  The parent navbox may be the list area of , the columns of a , or a list area of .  See  for more information and examples.

Basic data parameters

 * title†
 * The title of the template, displayed centered in the titlebar at the top of the template.


 * above†
 * Text or other elements to appear above groups/lists.


 * image†
 * Image to the right of all of the groups/lists.


 * imageleft†
 * Image to the left of all of the groups/lists.


 * below†
 * Text or other elements to appear below the groups/lists.

Group/list parameters

 * groupn
 * The title of each section.


 * listn†
 * The content/wikilinks that will be shown in the group. Use dots or bullets as separators (see the See also section). A  or  can optionally be used here with its   parameter set.  If this is done, leave the corresponding groupn blank, as the child navbox will already provide the collapsible feature.


 * abbrn
 * This is the value that will serve as the template call. Usually an abbreviation for the group.


 * selected
 * If the value of  equals the value of , then listn is uncollapsed and all other lists are collapsed.  If   is left blank, or if it does not match any  , then all groups are collapsed.  Usually this parameter should be set to   . Since this template is a base template for others, there has to be a way to pass the group parameter from the article, to the secondary template to this one.


 * staten [ ]
 * The initial collapsible state of .  Set to collapsed by default.  Overridden to uncollapsed if   equals.


 * imagen
 * An image to appear in the listn content area on the right side.


 * imageleftn
 * An image to appear in the listn content area on the left side.

Style parameters

 * bodystyle†
 * CSS style/s to apply to the entire template


 * titlestyle†
 * CSS style/s to apply to titlebar; usually .  The color of wikilink text must be manually changed using span tags.  For example use   to change the color of the link to ivory.  The [show]/[hide] button and the vde link button use the color set in the titlestyle parameter.  Here is an example of setting the titlestyle:


 * abovestyle†
 * belowstyle†
 * CSS style/s to apply to the above and below parameters, respectively.


 * basestyle†
 * CSS style/s to apply to the title, above, below, and groupn parameters, all at the same time.


 * imagestyle†
 * CSS style/s to apply to the image parameter. Does not get applied to the imagen parameters.


 * imageleftstyle†
 * CSS style/s to apply to the imageleft parameter. Does not get applied to the imageleftn parameters.


 * groupstyle
 * CSS style/s to apply to all group heading parameters. Visit this website to get a lighter color similar to the title background color. Example:


 * groupnstyle
 * CSS style/s to apply to a specific group heading; overrides any CSS styles set in groupstyle.


 * liststyle†
 * CSS style/s to apply to all list content parameters.


 * listnstyle†
 * CSS style/s to apply to specific list content parameters; overrides any CSS styles set in liststyle.


 * listpadding†
 * Padding to have in each list cell; defaults to 0.25em on the left/right and 0em on the top/bottom.

Basic example


Nesting other Navbox forms
This example shows, and  all working together. Press the edit button for the section to view the code. Note that each of the child navboxes has the first parameter set to