Template:Chart

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Usage

This template produces one row in a "family tree"-like chart consisting of boxes and connecting lines based loosely on an ASCII art-like syntax. It is meant to be used in conjunction with {{chart/start}} and {{chart/end}}. The chart is displayed as HTML tables using CSS attributes, and may contain arbitrary wikimarkup within the boxes. This implementation was based on the now-deprecated {{family tree}} template.

Basic example

This code:

{{chart/start|align=center|summary=An example family tree}}
{{chart| | | |GrMa |~|y|~| GRP | |GrMa=Grandma|GRP=Grandpa}}
{{chart| | | | | | | |)|-|-|-|.| }}
{{chart| | | MOM |y| DAD | |TERUMI|MOM=Mom|DAD=Dad|TERUMI=[[Yuuki Terumi]]}}
{{chart| |,|-|-|-|+|-|-|-|.| | | }}
{{chart| JOE | | ME  | | SIS | | |JOE=My brother Joe|ME='''Me!'''|SIS=My little sister}}
{{chart/end}}

produces this:

Grandma

Grandpa

Mom

Dad

Yuuki Terumi

My brother Joe

Me!

My little sister

This charts visually displays the information that I have a brother Joe and a little sister; my mom married my dad; and my dad's parents were Grandma and Grandpa; and my dad's parents had another child, Uncle Terumi. The code above produces a table of size 9 rows x 10 columns.

Collapsible basic example

This code uses {{chart top}}:

{{chart top|An example family tree}}
{{chart/start|align=center}}
{{chart| | | |GrMa |~|y|~| GRP | |GrMa=Grandma|GRP=Grandpa}}
{{chart| | | | | | | |)|-|-|-|.| }}
{{chart| | | MOM |y| DAD | |DAISY|MOM=Mom|DAD=Dad|TERUMI=[[Yuuki Terumi]]}}
{{chart| |,|-|-|-|+|-|-|-|.| | | }}
{{chart| JOE | | ME  | | SIS | | |JOE=My brother Joe|ME='''Me!'''|SIS=My little sister}}
{{chart/end}}
{{chart bottom}}

produces this:

An example family tree
Grandma Grandpa Mom Dad Yuuki Terumi My brother Joe Me! My little sister

This charts visually displays the information that I have a brother Joe and a little sister; my mom married my dad; and my dad's parents were Grandma and Grandpa; and my dad's parents had another child, Uncle Terumi.

Parameters

The template accepts any number of unnamed parameters with each parameter specifying a tile or a box.

• Boxes can contain arbitrary wiki markup. The content of each box is specified using additional named parameters appended to the template call. Each box is three tiles wide and normally has a black border two pixels wide. Boxes can have any name that is a valid template parameter name, subject to a minimum of two alphabetical characters.
• Tiles are line drawing symbols used to connect the boxes. They consist of various styles of horizontal and vertical lines along with corners and crossings as needed. Tiles are specified using their one- or two-character name: for the most common tiles, that character is more or less approximate to the tile's appearance. A special case of a tile is the empty tile, specified by a single space character. A table of available tiles is given below.

Solid lines:

!			,			v			.
-			)			+			(
			`			^			'

Dashed lines:

:			F			V			7
~			D			%			C
			L			A			J

Dotted lines:

Q			S			M			T
P			H			R			G
			Y			W			Z

Dashes hrzntl solid vrtcl:

fy		y		ye
f		t		e
fh		h		he

Solid hrzntl dashes vrtcl:

dj		j		jc
d		*		c
di		i		ic

Solid hrzntl dot vrtcl:

kr		r		rl
k		a		l
kq		q		ql

Dashed hrzntl dot vrtcl:

kr2		r2		rl2
k2		a2		l2
kq2		q2		ql2

Dots hrzntl solid vrtcl:

om		m		mp
o		b		p
on		n		np

Dots hrzntl dashes vrtcl:

om2		m2		mp2
o2		b2		p2
on2		n2		np2

Miscellaneous:

		T2
G2		X		K		l4
		U

Style attributes

The appearance of the boxes in a row may be controlled by the following optional template parameters:

• border specifies the width of the box border in pixels,
• boxstyle can be used to append arbitrary CSS declarations directly to the box style attributes. For example, the following code:

{{chart/start}}
{{chart|border=1|boxstyle=background:green;  | | FOO |y| BAR | |FOO=Box 1|BAR=Box 2}}
{{chart | | |,|-|^|-|.| | }}
{{chart|border=3|boxstyle=background:yellow; | | FOO | | BAR | |FOO=Box 3|BAR=Box 4}}
{{chart/end}}

produces this chart:

Box 1

Box 2

Box 3

Box 4

Style attributes can even be set for individual boxes within each row, as in the example below:

{{chart/start}}
{{chart| | | | |CLEAR| | | | |CLEAR=Clear box}}
{{chart| |,|-|-|'|!|`|-|-|.| }}
{{chart|RED  |~|GREEN|~|BLUE |RED=Red box|GREEN=Green box|BLUE=Blue box
|boxstyle_RED  =background-color: red;
|boxstyle_GREEN=background-color: green;
|boxstyle_BLUE =background-color: blue;
}}
{{chart/end}}

which produces this:

Clear box

Red box

Green box

Blue box

Template:Warnsign When specifying style attributes for individual named boxes, make sure the box names are aligned to the left side of the area reserved for them in the template call (as in "|RED  |" instead of "| RED |" in the example above), otherwise the template will end up looking for a style parameter with spaces in its name.

The {{chart/start}} template also accepts an optional |style= parameter that can be used to set CSS styles for the entire diagram, and an optional |align= parameter to set the chart alignment.

See also

• Wikipedia:Family trees for other methods.
• familytree.js, a tool for the easy creation or updating of diagrams using these templates.
• Wikipedia:Category:Family tree templates
• Wikipedia:Template:Nerva–Antonine family tree, a large example.
• Wikipedia:Template:Tree list
• Wikipedia:Template:Ahnentafel