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This template produces formatted text, following the guideline for a Wikipedia hatnote:

{{Hatnote|Example hatnote text.}} →

Broadly speaking, a hatnote should answer a reader's question (maybe preemptively): Am I on the right page?

Function

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.

Usage

Basic usage: {{hatnote|text}}

All parameters: {{hatnote|text|extraclasses=extra classes|selfref=yes|category=no}}

Parameters

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.

Example

{{hatnote|Example hatnote text}} →

Errors

If no hatnote text is supplied, the template will output the following message:

Error: no text specified (help).

If you see this error message, it is for one of four reasons:

No parameters were specified (the template code was {{hatnote}}). Please use {{hatnote|text}} instead.
Some parameters were specified, but the hatnote text wasn't included. For example, the template text {{hatnote|extraclasses=seealso}} will produce this error. Please use (for example) {{hatnote|text|extraclasses=seealso}} instead.
The hatnote text was specified, but that text contains an equals sign ("="). The equals sign has a special meaning in template code, and because of this it cannot be used in template parameters that do not specify a parameter name. For example, the template code {{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}}.
You tried to access Module:Hatnote directly by using {{#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.

Technical details

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.

 "description": "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.",
 "params": {
   "1": {
     "label": "Text",
     "description": "This field should contain the text that will be displayed in the hatnote.",
     "type": "string",
     "required": true
   },
   "extraclasses": {
     "type": "string/line",
     "label": "Extra classes",

"description": "Extra CSS classes to be added to the

tags surrounding the hatnote text."

   },
   "selfref": {
     "type": "string/line",
     "label": "Self reference",
     "description": "Set to \"yes\" if the hatnote text is a self-reference to Wikipedia that would not make sense on mirrors or forks of the Wikipedia site. (E.g. \"For the Wikipedia Sandbox, see WP:SAND\".)"
   },
   "category": {
     "label": "Category",
     "description": "Set to \"no\", \"n\", \"false\", or \"0\" to suppresses the error tracking category (Category:Hatnote templates with errors). This only has an effect if the hatnote text is omitted."
   }
 }

} </templatedata>

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-{{high-risk|320,000+}}
+{{Redirect|Template:Dablink|the maintenance template|Template:Dablinks}}
-{{shortcut|T:HAT}}
+{{used in system}}
-==Usage==
+{{Never substitute}}
-Using {{tlx|Hatnote|''text''}} formats text into the standard stylistic for a [[Wikipedia:Hatnote|Wikipedia hatnote]]. That produces a short note placed at the top of an article to provide disambiguation of closely related terms or summarise a topic, explaining its boundaries.
+{{Template redirect|Dablink}}
+{{Lua|Module:Hatnote}}
+{{Uses TemplateStyles|Module:Hatnote/styles.css}}
-===Function===
+This template produces formatted text, following the guideline for a '''[[Wikipedia:Hatnote|Wikipedia hatnote]]''':
+:{{tji|Hatnote|Example hatnote text.}} &rarr;<br><!-- a construct to show hatnote as expected (using newline) -->
+{{Hatnote|Example hatnote text.}}
+Broadly speaking, a hatnote should answer a reader's question (maybe preemptively): ''Am I on the right page?''
+{{TOC limit}}
+== Function ==
 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 <code>div-</code> / <code>div</code> 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 [[Wikipedia:Otheruses templates (example usage)]] for a list.
+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:Cheatsheet|Wikipedia markup]].
-===Code===
+== Usage ==
-<code><nowiki><div class="dablink"></div></nowiki></code>
+; Basic usage:
+: {{tji|hatnote|text}}
-==Template data==
+; All parameters:
-{{TemplateDataHeader}}
+: {{tji|hatnote|text|extraclasses:extra classes|selfref:yes|category:no}}
-<templatedata>{
-"description": "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.",
+== Parameters ==
-"params": {
+This template accepts the following parameters:
-  "1": {
+* <code>1</code> – the hatnote text (required)
-    "label": "Text",
+* <code>extraclasses</code> – any extra CSS classes to be added, for example, the {{tl|see also}} template adds the classes "{{para|extraclasses|boilerplate seealso}}".
-    "description": "This field should contain the text that will be displayed in the hatnote.",
+* <code>selfref</code> – 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.
-    "type": "string",
+* <code>category</code> – 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 <!--"first-positional parameter", not "first positional parameter", if you value the readers' time ... but better yet --> leftmost parameter (the hatnote text) is omitted.
-    "required": true
-  }
+== Example ==
-}}</templatedata>
+* {{tji|hatnote|Example hatnote text}} → {{hatnote|Example hatnote text}}
+== Errors ==
+If no hatnote text is supplied, the template will output the following message:
+* {{hatnote|category=no}}
+If you see this error message, it is for one of four reasons:
+# No parameters were specified (the template code was <code><nowiki>{{hatnote}}</nowiki></code>). Please use <code><nowiki>{{hatnote|</nowiki>''text''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> instead.
+# Some parameters were specified, but the hatnote text wasn't included. For example, the template text <code><nowiki>{{hatnote|extraclasses=seealso}}</nowiki></code> will produce this error. Please use (for example) <code><nowiki>{{hatnote|</nowiki>''text''<nowiki>|extraclasses=seealso}}</nowiki></code> instead.
+# The hatnote text was specified, but that text contains an equals sign ("="). The equals sign has a special meaning in template code, and because of this it cannot be used in template parameters that do not specify a parameter name. For example, the template code <code><nowiki>{{hatnote|2+2=4}}</nowiki></code> will produce this error. To work around this, you can specify the parameter name explicitly by using <code>1=</code> before the hatnote text, like this: <code><nowiki>{{hatnote|1=2+2=4}}</nowiki></code>.
+# You tried to access [[Module:Hatnote]] directly by using <code><nowiki>{{#invoke:hatnote|hatnote|</nowiki>''text''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>. Use of #invoke in this way has been disabled for performance reasons. Please use <code><nowiki>{{hatnote|</nowiki>''text''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> 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]].
+== Technical details ==
+The HTML code produced by this template looks like this:
+* {{tag|div|attribs=role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable"|link=yes|content= hatnote text}}
-==Redirects==
+The code is produced by [[Module:Hatnote]].
-*{{tl|Dablink}}
-{{Hatnote templates documentation}}
+==See also==
+* {{tl|For}}
-<includeonly>
+{{Hatnote templates}}
-[[Category:Hatnote templates]]
+{{Collapse top|[[Wikipedia:TemplateData|TemplateData]] documentation used by [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor|VisualEditor]] and other tools}}
-</includeonly>
+{{TemplateData header|noheader=1}}
+<templatedata>
+{
+  "description": "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.",
+  "params": {
+    "1": {
+      "label": "Text",
+      "description": "This field should contain the text that will be displayed in the hatnote.",
+      "type": "string",
+      "required": true
+    },
+    "extraclasses": {
+      "type": "string/line",
+      "label": "Extra classes",
+      "description": "Extra CSS classes to be added to the <div> tags surrounding the hatnote text."
+    },
+    "selfref": {
+      "type": "string/line",
+      "label": "Self reference",
+      "description": "Set to \"yes\" if the hatnote text is a self-reference to Wikipedia that would not make sense on mirrors or forks of the Wikipedia site. (E.g. \"For the Wikipedia Sandbox, see [[WP:SAND]]\".)"
+    },
+    "category": {
+      "label": "Category",
+      "description": "Set to \"no\", \"n\", \"false\", or \"0\" to suppresses the error tracking category (Category:Hatnote templates with errors). This only has an effect if the hatnote text is omitted."
+    }
+  }
+}
+</templatedata>
+{{Collapse bottom}}<includeonly>{{Sandbox other||
+[[Category:Hatnote templates| ]]
+[[Category:Cross-reference templates]]
+}}</includeonly>

v t e Hatnote templates
Wikipedia:Hatnote Wikipedia:Disambiguation Wikipedia:Redirect
Generic	{{Hatnote}} {{Hatnote group}} {{Self-reference}}
For and about	{{For}} {{For-text}} (for custom text) {{For-multi}} (for multiple uses) {{About}} Variations: {{Other uses}} {{Other uses of}} {{Redirect-distinguish-for}} {{About-distinguish}} {{About-distinguish-text}}
Other topics	{{Other people}} {{About other people}} (adds "about" description) {{Similar names}} {{Other storms}} {{Other places}} {{Other ships}}
Redirect	{{Redirect}} {{Redirect2}} (for two redirects) {{Redirect-multi}} (for multiple redirects) {{Redirect-several}} (for several redirects, without listing each) {{Redirect-synonym}} {{Redirect-distinguish}} {{Redirect-distinguish-text}} {{Redirect-distinguish-for}} {{Technical reasons}}
Distinguish	{{Distinguish}} (supports custom text) {{About-distinguish}} {{About-distinguish-text}} (for custom text) {{Redirect-distinguish}} {{Redirect-distinguish-text}} (for custom text) {{Redirect-distinguish-for}}
For use in sections	{{Main}} {{Main if exists}} {{Main list}} {{Further}} {{Further-text}} (for custom text) {{Further interlanguage link}} {{See also}} {{See also-text}} (for custom text) {{For outline}} {{For timeline}}
Special	{{Broader}} {{For introduction}} {{See Wiktionary}} {{Transcluding article}} {{Transcluded section}}
Subject specific	{{About year}} {{Highway detail hatnote}} {{For LMST}} {{WikiIPA}}
File:Symbol category class.svg Category:Hatnote templates modules for [family] names for lists hatnote templates for category pages