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This page is an introduction to editing and creating navboxes to help users learn how to edit and format navbox templates. Navbox templates are navigational templates found at the bottom of the articles. If you want to learn how to add a template to a page, see here.
Starting simple
Start a navbox with {{Navbox on the first line and end it with a }} on the last line of the template
On the second line add its name with |name = Name of the navbox, this has to be equal to the name of the template, e.g. the name of Template:Skilling pets is Skilling pets (the link to the template without Template:)
On the next line add a title to display at the top of the navbox with |title = [[Title of the navbox]], this is often used to link to the navbox's main content article, e.g. Skilling pets
On the next line add the group parameter to start a group to display links in with |groupX =, e.g. the first group will be |group1 =
On the next line add content to the group by adding an indent of 1 space followed by a * followed by another space followed by the link, e.g. * [[Some link]]
There are plain links, e.g. [[Skilling pets]] which produces Skilling pets
There are links with the inventory icon, e.g. {{plink|Brains}} which produces Brains
There are links with the just the inventory icon, e.g. {{plinkp|Brains}} which produces
There are links with the NPC's chathead, e.g. {{chatl|Hans}} which produces Hans
There are links for emotes with their icons, e.g. {{emote link|Bow}} which produces Bow
To learn more about the optional parameters of these so called link templates, see their documentation: {{plink}}, {{plinkp}}, {{chatl}}, and {{Emote link}}
It's common for a navbox with one group to center the group with |styleX = text-align:center; with X being the number of the group, in this case being 1
It's also common for groups without a gtitleX parameter (see next section) to be centred
It's also possible to center all content of the navbox with |style = text-align:center;, so style without a number
A second group can easily be added just like the first group, start it on a new line after the contents of the first group
There is a maximum of 20 groups in a navbox (not counting subgroups, but those also have the same limit), e.g. a navbox can have 20 groups with 3 of them having an X amount of subgroups
All group parameters (gtitleX, styleX, gtypeX, groupX) also have the same number per group (with X being the number in this example)
Add gtypeX = subgroup in the parent group above the groupX parameter
Add a subnavbox with an indent of 2 spaces
Instead of adding the name and title parameters, add the following parameter: |subgroup = yes
Continue as if it is a normal navbox with groups (or even deeper subgroups)
It's normal for a navbox to have a maximum of 2 subgroups deep (subgroup in a subgroup in a group), however deeper subgroups do exist, but are not recommended
To add a category to a navbox so the category is transcluded from the navbox onto the articles that use the navbox, the following can be used: {{Ctg|Name of the category}}
Navbox templates themselves can also have a category by adding: {{Template only|[[Category:Name of a navbox category]]}}
The above two templates are added at the end of the template on the same line as the closing }} as shown below
Brains
Hans
