{{Navbar}} provides a small "view · talk · edit" navigation bar. It is primarily used for content-heavy templates and other transcluded content blocks, so that the content inside the template or block is more easily editable in situ where it was found, without having track it down through examining transclusion code. {{Navbar}}'s extremely high use rate and consequent protection level are because it is integrated as a feature into numerous navigation box and infobox templates used in millions of articles. It is also a regular feature of many internal-use templates and tables of the Wikipedia, Help, and Template namespaces.

When one of the following examples is placed inside a given template (or block of content used for selective transclusion), it adds basic navbar navigational functionality:

{{navbar|{{subst:PAGENAME}}|mini=y}}
{{navbar|{{subst:PAGENAME}}|plain=y}}
{{navbar|{{subst:PAGENAME}}|fontstyle=color: green; font-style: italic;}}

The {{subst:PAGENAME}} will be substituted with the page name of the real location of the content when parsed by the servers. For example, {{navbar|Navbar/doc}} gives:

When used in content that is selectively transcluded but which is also used as-is in its original location, this template should be wrapped in <includeonly>...</includeonly> markup, so that it only appears when transcluded.

Font size and weight

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Font-size is 88% when used in a topical navbar template or in plain text, and 100% when nested in a navbox or infobox (because those templates' text size is already reduced; the "100%" is relative to the surrounding template's own content, not that of the entire page). The |fontstyle= parameter can be used to adjust font size as needed (e.g. to reduce font size even more when the template is used inside a block element with a large font size). Do not abuse this to make excessively small text (i.e. less than 85% of the normal page text), since that causes for many readers.

In a topical navbar, the weight is "normal"; when nested in a navbox or infobox, it inherits the style of the surrounding content. The middot bullets are bold for better visibility.

Block level element

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The template generates block-level markup with ‎<div>...‎</div> tags, and therefore, any surrounding markup cannot include ‎<span>...‎</span> tags, which would cause a div-span-flip lint error.

Required parameters

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  • {{navbar|Template Name}} – the template name is required.

Optional parameters

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Options Parameters Produces... "Shortcut" template
Basic {{navbar|Template Name}}
Different text {{navbar|Template Name|text=This template:}}
Without "This box:" text {{navbar|Template Name|plain=y}} {{View}}
Short version {{navbar|Template Name|mini=y}} {{V}}
With brackets {{navbar|Template Name|brackets=y}}
With font styling examples (span) {{navbar|Template Name|fontstyle=color: green; font-style: italic;}}
With whole-template styling examples (div) {{navbar|Template Name|style=float:right; background: Beige; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid;}}

Shortcut templates

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The mini=y and plain=y parameters can be avoided by using the {{v}} or {{view}} templates, respectively, instead.

{{View}} and {{V}} also support changing the shown links, for example only view and edit, or only view and talk:

Code Result
{{view|template=view/doc}}
{{view|template=view/doc|talk}}
{{view|template=view/doc|talk|edit}}
{{v|template=v/doc}}
v
{{v|template=v/doc|t}}
v · t
{{v|template=v/doc|t|e}}
v · t · e

Navbar is contained within a ‎<div>...‎</div> in order to accommodate a horizontal unnumbered list. This means it cannot be placed inside a ‎<span>...‎</span> or other inline element, because the HTML Tidy extension will 'fix' situations where it finds block elements inside inline elements.

{{Navbar-header}}
Positions on the right edge of the line, often used in non-collapsible navbox heading.
{{Navbar-collapsible}}
For use in conjunction with collapsible tables, floats opposite of the [hide]/[show] feature.
  • {{Ed}} – navbar style edit link
  • {{Ed right}} – navbar style edit link aligned to right of page
  • {{Edit}} – plain edit link
  • {{Edit section}} – edit link aligned to right of page
  • {{Navbar}} – with additional links

Other internal link templates, including:

Navigation templates comparison
Template Collapsible Image Groups Style (body)
parameter/s
{{Navbox}} collapsible Left/right of body Yes Yes
{{Navbox with collapsible groups}} collapsible Left/right of body and/or in each list Yes Yes
{{Navbox with columns}} collapsible Left/right of columns No Yes
Collapsible attributes
Type CSS classes JavaScript Collapses when Custom
initial state
Nesting
Collapsible tables mw-collapsible jQuery.makeCollapsible 2 or more autocollapse on page Yes Yes
This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Navbar in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Navbar

When placed inside a given template, it adds navbar navigational functionality

Template parameters

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Template Name1

The name of the template, so links work correctly

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Stringrequired
Different texttext

Allows custom text to replace the default 'this box'

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This box
Stringಐಚ್ಛಿಕ
Without 'This box:' textplain

Removes 'This box'

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0
ಸಂಖ್ಯೆಐಚ್ಛಿಕ
Short Versionmini

Shortens text to V T E

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0
ಸಂಖ್ಯೆಐಚ್ಛಿಕ
with bracketsbrackets

adds brackets before and after the links

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0
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Font colorfontstyle

Allows you to change the color of the font (in the format color:green)

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Stringಐಚ್ಛಿಕ
To float to the sidestyle

Allows the template to float to the side (format=float:right)

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float:left
Stringಐಚ್ಛಿಕ