Template:For/doc
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This template produces a hatnote similar to Template:Tl, but allowing more flexible text with links to multiple articles or disambiguation pages.
Usage
It accepts one or more parameters (zero is not allowed).
With one parameter (rare)
The first parameter sets the hatnote itself and should be plain text. Without any further parameter, it will link to a default disambiguation page for the article title, e.g. Template:Tlc yields on page Foo: Script error: No such module "Hatnote".
This kind of usage with exactly one parameter is rare, as in most instances Template:Tl (and in this case, Template:Tl with the same result) can be used more easily, and without any parameter. But it makes sense in some cases for disambiguation pages with the same type of other meanings, e.g. in Treaty of Lisbon: Script error: No such module "Hatnote". However, for many such cases specific new templates have been implemented, like Template:Tl, Template:Tl etc. see the hatnote template overview box below.
With two parameters
The second parameter is used to change the resultant link, e.g. Template:Tlc yields (wherever it is set, now independent of the article title): Script error: No such module "For".
With more parameters
The third, fourth and fifth parameters are used to give one, two, or three additional resultant links: Script error: No such module "For". Script error: No such module "For". Script error: No such module "For". the last being produced by e.g. Template:Tlc.
The |selfref=yes option marks the entire hatnote as a Wikipedia self-reference, causing it to be omitted when the page content is reused outside of Wikipedia (see Template:Tl and MOS:SELFREF for more details).
Styling in italics
Please see Template:Section link (WP:ITHAT) for details about how to use italics in hatnotes.
Tracking category
Pages with errors reported by this template are added to Category:Hatnote templates using unusual parameters.
TemplateData
This template lists up to four articles on alternative meanings of a term. For further details and examples see the template documentation.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | 1 | a phrase describing the major alternative, or a general term for all alternative meanings
| String | required |
| First link | 2 | A page to link to; usually a disambiguation page or the most likely other meaning.
| Page name | optional |
| Second link | 3 | A page to link to for another meaning, if any. | Page name | optional |
| Third link | 4 | A page to link to for another meaning, if any. | Page name | optional |
| Fourth link | 5 | A page to link to for another meaning, if any. | Page name | optional |
| Is self-reference? | selfref | Set to yes to make this hatnote invisible in certain versions, e.g. when printed.
| Boolean | optional |