Template:Chart/Doc

This is a template for rendering simple diagrams consisting of boxes and connecting lines based loosely on an ASCII art-like syntax. The trees are displayed as HTML tables using CSS attributes, and may contain arbitrary wiki markup within the boxes. This template was originally copied from Wikipedia. Differences from wikipedia's version of the template are:

• UESP's template only accepts 40 columns (parameters of data), whereas Wikipedia's accepts 50
• UESP does not have any mixed dotted+dashed line tiles (two-letter tiles)

Example usage

This code:

{{chart/start}}
{{chart| | | | GRM |~|y|~| GRP | | GRM=Grandma|GRP=Grandpa}}
{{chart| | | | | | | |)|-|-|-|.| }}
{{chart| | | MOM |y| DAD | |DAISY| MOM=Mom|DAD=Dad|DAISY=[[Aunt Daisy]]}}
{{chart| |,|-|-|-|+|-|-|-|.| | | }}
{{chart| JOE | | ME  | | SIS | | | JOE=My brother Joe|ME='''Me!'''|SIS=My little sister}}
{{chart/end}}

Produces this:

Grandma

Grandpa

Mom

Dad

Aunt Daisy

My brother Joe

Me!

My little sister

Parameters

This template produces one row in a flow-chart style table. The template accepts up to 40 unnamed parameters describing the contents of the table. Each parameter specifies a tile or a box.

• Tiles are line drawing symbols consisting of horizontal and vertical lines and various corners and crossings thereof. Tiles are specified using one-character symbols: for the most common tiles, that character is more or less approximate the shape of the tile in 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			7			L			J
A			V			C			D
~			:			%

Dotted lines:

S			T			Y			Z
W			M			G			H
P			Q			R

Mixed:

*

t

a

b

h

y

c

d

n

m

l

k

i

j

e

f

q

r

p

o

Directed:

↑

↑

↓

↓

←

←

→

→

• 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.

Style attributes

The appearance of the boxes 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=0|boxstyle=background:#dfd;| | FOO |y| BAR | |FOO=Box 1|BAR=Box 2}}
{{chart|border=0|boxstyle=background:#dfd;| | |,|-|^|-|.| | }}
{{chart|border=0|boxstyle=background:#dfd;| | 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, as in the example below:

{{chart/start}}
{{chart| | | | |WHITE| | | | |WHITE=White box}}
{{chart| |,|-|-|'|!|`|-|-|.| }}
{{chart|RED  |~|GREEN|~|BLUE |RED=Red box|GREEN=Green box|BLUE=Blue box
|boxstyle_RED  =background-color: #faa;
|boxstyle_GREEN=background-color: #afa;
|boxstyle_BLUE =background-color: #aaf;
}}
{{chart/end}}

which produces this:

White box

Red box

Green box

Blue box

NOTE: 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.