Template:Babel/doc

{{Babel}} is for showing the languages that you know, as well as the operating system, keyboard layout, web browser, desktop environment, and text editor that you are most comfortable with. Details of how to use it for its original purpose—showing the languages that you know—are at Wikipedia:Babel.

Usage

{{Babel|<box1>|<box2>|<box3>...}}

Parameters can be added using the {{!}} and {{=}} tricks:

{{Babel|0RR{{!}}border-c{{=}}red}} ➜

Wikipedia:Wikipedia:BabelTemplate:User 0RRSearch user languages

The Babel box prefixes its arguments with "User ", so it will work with the User: namespace:

{{Babel|:UBX/Userboxes/Thank Button}} ➜

Wikipedia:Wikipedia:BabelUser:UBX/Userboxes/Thank ButtonSearch user languages

Custom styling

To customize the appearance you can add the optional parameters

|align=left

to display the babel box on the left side of the screen rather than the default right

|header=header

change header, default is Wikipedia:Babel

|footer=footer

change wiki markup for footer, default is [[:Category:Wikipedians by language|Search user languages]] (which appears as Search user languages)

|bordercolor=color

color of the border, default is #99B3FF

|color=color

background color, default is white

|textcolor=color

text color, default is black

|left=pixels

left margin in pixels, default is 1

|bottom=pixels

bottom margin in pixels, default is 0.5

|solid=pixels

solid border width, default is 1

|width=pixels

width of the box, default is 248

|extra-css=css-code

any other custom formatting

Columns and separators

• Use ! to start a new column after that point
• Use - to insert a blank row
• Use head to insert a header; use head-m to insert a header without text
• Use line to insert a horizontal ruler separator

For example,

{{Babel
| align  = left
| header = Userboxes
| color  = yellow
| head           | en    | tl-1       | ru-2
| line           | pas   | :UBX/1337  | !
| head{{!}}Other | 1RR   | help desk  | -
| line           | happy | wikipedia/WikiFairy
}}

Produces:

UserboxesTemplate:User head

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

Template:User tl-1Template:User ru-2Template:User lineTemplate:User pasUser:UBX/1337Template:User headTemplate:User 1RRTemplate:User help deskTemplate:User -Template:User lineTemplate:User happyTemplate:User wikipedia/WikiFairySearch user languages

Copying template to other wikis

The page you are now reading is the /doc subpage for the actual Babel template. If you click "edit this page", you will see invocation of Lua Module:Babel that makes the Babel boxes work. What you're now reading is just documentation for that code, transcluded inside "<noinclude>" tags so it doesn't interfere with the computer code.

In order to use Babel boxes in another Wikimedia project, you need both the template and the module. Click "view source" and copy all the contents, including the computer code. Create a page called "Template:Babel" on the other Wikimedia project and put the content into it. Do the same for the module.

You will also need to copy over a bunch of files with names like "Template:User en", "Template:User en-1", "Template:User fr", and so on. Once you've done that, users can put, for example, "{{Babel|en-1|fr}}" on their user page, and the Babel boxes will be displayed.

See also

• mw:Extension:Babel