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This template produces formatted text, following the guideline for a Wikipedia hatnote:
Broadly speaking, a hatnote should answer a reader's question (maybe preemptively): Am I on the right page?
This template is primarily used to add a correctly formatted hatnote to a page. Often, but not always, this is a disambiguation link at the top of article pages. It places an HTML div-
/ div
block around the text entered as its only argument, which provides standardized formatting (contents are indented and italicized in most displays); it also isolates the contained code to make sure that it is interpreted correctly.
This template is also used as the "meta-template" for additional specialized disambiguation link templates; see Category:Hatnote templates for a list.
The template does not automatically create links of any kind. Links and other desired formatting must be explicitly added, using normal Wikipedia markup.
This template accepts the following parameters:
1
– the hatnote text (required)extraclasses
– any extra CSS classes to be added, for example, the {{see also}} template adds the classes "|extraclasses=boilerplate seealso
".selfref
– If set to "yes", "y", "true" or "1", adds the CSS class "selfref". This is used to denote self-references to Wikipedia. See Template:Selfref for more information.category
– If set to "no", "n", "false", or "0", suppresses the error tracking category (Category:Hatnote templates with errors). This has an effect only if the leftmost parameter (the hatnote text) is omitted.If no hatnote text is supplied, the template will output the following message:
If you see this error message, it is for one of four reasons:
{{hatnote}}
). Please use {{hatnote|text}}
instead.{{hatnote|extraclasses=seealso}}
will produce this error. Please use (for example) {{hatnote|text|extraclasses=seealso}}
instead.{{hatnote|2+2=4}}
will produce this error. To work around this, you can specify the parameter name explicitly by using 1=
before the hatnote text, like this: {{hatnote|1=2+2=4}}
.{{#invoke:hatnote|hatnote|text}}
. Use of #invoke in this way has been disabled for performance reasons. Please use {{hatnote|text}}
instead.If you see this error message and are unsure of what to do, please post a message on Template talk:Hatnote, and someone should be able to help you.
Pages that contain this error message are tracked in Category:Hatnote templates with errors.
The HTML code produced by this template looks like this:
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">hatnote text</div>
The code is produced by Module:Hatnote.
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TemplateData for Hatnote Template for creating a standard Wikipedia hatnote. A hatnote is a short note placed at the top of an article to provide disambiguation of closely related terms or summarise a topic, explaining its boundaries.
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