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Editing the Table of Contents
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Sometimes you will want to remove the Table of Contents on a page. Type this text
__NOTOC__
to accomplish this.
More Table of Contents (TOC) commands are found in the table below:
Table of contents
Table of contents
| Word | Explanation |
|---|---|
| __NOTOC__ | Hides the Table of Contents on the current page. |
| __FORCETOC__ | Forces the table of contents to appear. |
| __TOC__ | Places a Table of Contents here. Also forces it to appear. |
More magic
More magic
| Word | Explanation |
|---|---|
| __NOEDITSECTION__ | Hides the edit links beside headings. |
| __NOTITLECONVERT__ __NOTC__ |
Like __NOCC__ but affecting article title only. |
| __END__ | Allows for trailing whitespace to be included in the page save. |
Behavior switches
Behavior switches
A behavior switch controls the layout or behavior of the page and can often be used to specify desired omissions and inclusions in the content.
| Template:Hl2| Word | Template:Hl2| Description | Template:Hl2| Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Template:Hl3 colspan=”3″| Table of contents | ||
__NOTOC__
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Hides the table of contents (TOC). | |
__FORCETOC__
|
Forces the table of contents to appear at its normal position (above the first header). | |
__TOC__
|
Places a table of contents at the word’s current position (overriding __NOTOC__). If this is used multiple times, the table of contents will appear at the first word’s position.
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| Template:Hl3 colspan=”3″| Editing | ||
__NOEDITSECTION__
|
Hides the section edit links beside headings. This is especially useful, where a heading is created from within a template: the normal wiki section-edit would in this case edit the template code, which is normally counterintuitive to the user. If a template contains multiple headings, it may be necessary to add “__NOEDITSECTION__” after each heading.
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__NEWSECTIONLINK__
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Adds a link (“+” by default) beside the “edit” tab for adding a new section on a non-talk page (see Template:Mediawiki). | 1.7+ |
__NONEWSECTIONLINK__
|
Removes the link beside the “edit” tab on pages in talk namespaces. | Template:Mediawiki |
| Template:Hl3 colspan=”3″| Categories | ||
__NOGALLERY__
|
Used on a category page, replaces thumbnails in the category view with normal links. | 1.7+ |
__HIDDENCAT__
|
Used on a category page, hides the category from the lists of categories in its members and parent categories (there is an option in the user preferences to show them). | 1.13+ |
| Template:Hl3 colspan=”3″| Language conversion | ||
__NOCONTENTCONVERT__ __NOCC__
|
On wikis with language variants, don’t perform any content language conversion (character and phase) in article display; for example, only show Chinese (zh) instead of variants like zh_cn, zh_tw, zh_sg, or zh_hk. | |
__NOTITLECONVERT__ __NOTC__
|
On wikis with language variants, don’t perform language conversion on the title (all other content is converted). | |
| Template:Hl3 colspan=”3″| Other | ||
__START__
|
No effect. | |
__END__
|
Explicitly marks the end of the article, to prevent MediaWiki from removing trailing whitespace. Removed in Template:Mediawiki. | 1.1–1.8 |
__INDEX__
|
Tell search engines to index the page (overrides Template:Mediawiki, but not robots.txt). | 1.14+ |
__NOINDEX__
|
Tell search engines not to index the page (ie, do not list in search engines’ results). | Template:Mediawiki |
__STATICREDIRECT__
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On redirect pages, don’t allow MediaWiki to automatically update the link when someone moves a page and checks “Update any redirects that point to the original title”. | Template:Mediawiki |
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