Template:Family tree/doc

This is a template for rendering simple family trees consisting of boxes and connecting lines based 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.

Example usage

This code:

{{familytree/start}}
{{familytree | | | | | GRM |v| GRP | | | | |GRM=[[Grandma]]|GRP=[[Grandpa]]}}
{{familytree | | | | | | | |)|-|-|-|.| | | |}}
{{familytree | | | MOM |v| DAD | |DAI| | | |MOM=[[Mom]]|DAD=[[Dad]]|DAI=[[Daisy|My aunt]]}}
{{familytree | |,|-|-|-|+|-|-|-|.| | | | | |}}
{{familytree | BRO | | ME1 | | SIS |~| BIL |BRO=[[Joe|My brother]]|ME1='''ME'''|SIS=[[Alice|My sister]]|BIL=[[John|My brother-in-law]]}}
{{familytree/end}}

Produces this:

Grandma

Grandpa

Mom

Dad

My aunt

My brother

ME

My sister

My brother-in-law

Parameters

This template produces one row in a family tree table. The template accepts up to 99 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 single-character symbols that 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 supported tiles is given below.

Solid lines:

,			.			`			'
^			v			(			)
-			!			+

Dashed lines:

F			7			L			J
A			V			C			D
~			:			%

Mixed:

*			}			{
#			y			h
]			[

• Boxes can contain arbitrary wiki markup. The contents of boxes are specified using additional named parameters appended to the template call. Each box is three tiles wide and normally has a 2 pixels wide black border. Boxes can have any name that is a valid template parameter name, although single character names should be avoided to prevent conflicts with tile symbols.