Template:Header/doc



 This template is meant to be used at the top of an article. Fill in any relevant information, and leave unknown or inapplicable parameters empty. Don't remove unused parameters, as this will break the template and make bot maintenance difficult. For easy use, see also the header preloading script gadget in your preferences.

Relative links
With lengthy, multi-page works, using relative links is highly recommended. This shortens the code and ensures that a work remains linked together even if it is moved or reorganised. The three formats are /subpage (subpage), ../ (parent), and ../sibling (sibling); see the example usage below. Note that ../ will expand to the title of the parent page, which is ideal if the work is renamed at a later time.

This depends on a page conforming to the page title standards in the Style guide, with works in the form Work title and Work title/Subpage.

Chapter titles
In general, include chapter titles in the "section" field, but avoid including them in the "previous" and "next" fields. For example:

Translations
|translator=Joe The name of the translator. This will automatically be linked to an author page unless it contains the "[" character.

(A value of "?" or "unknown" adds No translator info to the page.)

(A value of "not mentioned" adds translator not mentioned to the page.)

No link to author page
| author= |override_author=Joe Displays the author's name without a link to an author page (for works that don't have traditional authors).

Use of extra templates within header
Within the  field you may wish to consider the use of these additional templates
 * wikipedia for referring to an encyclopaedic article at Wikipedia
 * wikiquote for referring to a related category at Wikiquote
 * edition for referring to extra information on the Talk page for the work

JavaScript extraction
The header values can be extracted using JavaScript by accessing the text values of their span wrappers: