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{{TOC right}} forces the auto-generated Table of Contents for an article to appear floated to the right side of the page, in order to improve article layout.
Usage[edit source]
Insert {{TOC right}} at the point in the article where you want the top of the Table of Contents box to appear. This should usually be after the text of the lead section, and just before the first section heading, in accordance with Starfleet:Lead section#Elements of the lead. Use with {{-}} or {{clear}} to prevent collision with text; use the clear parameter (see below) to prevent collision with images.
- Avoid placing the TOC in a visually poor location. Crossing a section division is probably a poor idea.
- width
- Set the CSS width.
- limit
- Limits the depth of subheadings shown. For instance using
limit=4will hide the fourth level and deeper subheadings in the hierarchy. Andlimit=2will hide all subheadings leaving only the main headings. This works by hiding the lower levels with CSS. See Template:TOC limit/styles.css.
Do not place this template so that the TOC aligns with a large image or infobox; this breaks the layout on narrow screens (even users with screens as wide as 1024px wide can have problems). Also, a TOC that crosses a section division is probably a poor idea, if that can be avoided.
Unless the section in which the {{TOC right}} is placed is long enough, the result may well be undesirable.
It should only be used in cases where the TOC gets in the way of other content or is detrimental to the layout of the page; it should not simply be used for aesthetics since it tampers with the standard appearance of articles. See Help:Section#Floating the TOC for further guidelines.
See also[edit source]
External links[edit source]
- Template:TOC right/doc at Wikipedia, the free Terran-based encyclopedia that anyone can edit.