Editing Template:Navbox/doc (section)

== Technical details ==
* The {{navbar|1=:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|mini=on}} links are produced by [[Template:Navbar]]. If you have a question about them, it is probably best to ask at [[Template talk:Navbar]].
* The 2px wide border between groups and lists is drawn using the border-left property of the list cell. Thus, if you wish to change the background color of the template (for example <code>bodystyle = background:purple;</code>), then you'll need to make the border-left-color match the background color (i.e. <code>liststyle = border-left-color: purple;</code>). If you wish to have a border around each list cell, then the 2px border between the list cells and group cells will disappear; you'll have to come up with your own solution.
* Adjacent navboxes have only a 1 pixel border between them. If you set the top or bottom margin of <code>style/bodystyle</code>, then this will not work.
* The default margin-left and margin-right of the outer navbox table are set to "auto;". If you wish to use navbox as a float, you need to manually set the margin-left and margin-right values, because the auto margins interfere with the float option. For example, add the following code to use the navbox as a float:
** <code>bodystyle = width: 22em; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0;</code>
* This template calls {{ml|Navbox|navbox}}, which can double the [[WP:PEIS|post-expand include size]] when navbox templates are used on pages. When child navboxes are used, this can cause the size to quadruple or more. To reduce the include size, you can call the module directly, e.g.:

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">
{{#invoke:Navbox|navbox
| name = {{subst:PAGENAME}}
| title = Title

| group1 = [optional]
| list1  = {{#invoke:Navbox|navbox|child
   ...child navbox parameters...
 }}

...
}}
</syntaxhighlight>

=== Copying to other projects or wikis ===
If you are trying to copy {{tlf|Navbox}} to your local wiki, there are several other things that must be installed or copied over as well:
* The [[mw:Extension:Scribunto|Scribunto]] and [[:mw:Extension:TemplateStyles|TemplateStyles]] extensions must be installed.
* [[Module:Navbox]] and its module and TemplateStyles dependencies, listed in the above two links
* Optionally, the <code>Add support to mw-collapsible for autocollapse, innercollapse and outercollapse</code> script from [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] may be copied, if autocollapsing is desired.