Template:Featured topic box/sandbox
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Usage
General syntax options for this template are as follows:
{{Featured topic box
| title =
| lead =
| view =
| count =
| image =
| imagesize =
| column1 =
:
:
| column2 =
:
:
| column3 =
}}
- title: name of the featured topic (used for the talk page link)
- Example: 2003 Atlantic hurricane season for 2003 Atlantic hurricane season
- lead: name of topic to be displayed in header bar, including any formating and links. Must not include any bold text. Should be the same as the topic title - can be piped if needs be.
- Example: {{classicon|FA}} [[2003 Atlantic hurricane season]]
- view (optional): Link to the topic's page itself
- count: number of articles in topic
- Example: 17
- image (optional): name of image to be used, which must not be fair use. If omitted or blank, no image is used.
- Example: 2003 Atlantic hurricane season map.png (see Image:2003 Atlantic hurricane season map.png)
- imagesize (optional) size of any image in pixels. If omitted or blank, this will take the value 60 (if there is an image)
- Example: 55
- To make the height 60, like in most of the current boxes, divide length by height and multiply by 60.
- column1, column2, column3: use these to list the articles in the topic using bulleted lists, with any formatting, links, and the FA/GA stars.
- Example:
- * {{icon|FL}} [[List of storms in the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season|List of storms]]
- * {{icon|GA}} [[Tropical Storm Ana (2003)|Tropical Storm Ana]]
- * {{icon|FA}} [[Hurricane Juan]]
- * {{icon|PR}} [[Hurricane Bob]]
- * — etc.
The colour scheme for this template uses the H90 header / accent colours at Wikipedia talk:Colours