Template:Family tree

Documentation

This is a template for rendering simple family trees or diagrams consisting of boxes and connecting lines based on an ASCII art-like syntax. The trees are displayed as HTML tables using Cascading Style Sheets attributes, and may contain arbitrary wiki markup within the boxes.

Example usage

This code:

 {{family tree/start |summary=I have a brother Joe and a little sister: my mom married my dad, and my dad's parents were Grandma and Grandpa; they had another child, Aunt Daisy.}}
 {{family tree | | | | GMa |~|y|~| GPa | | GMa=Gladys|GPa=Sydney}}
 {{family tree | | | | | | | |)|-|-|-|.| }}
 {{family tree | | | MOM |y| DAD | |DAISY| MOM=Mom|DAD=Dad|DAISY=[[Aunt Daisy]]}}
 {{family tree | |,|-|-|-|+|-|-|-|.| | | }}
 {{family tree | JOE | | ME  | | SIS | | | JOE=My brother Joe|ME='''Me!'''|SIS=My little sister}}
 {{family tree/end}}

Produces this:

Gladys

Sydney

Mom

Dad

Aunt Daisy

My brother Joe

Me!

My little sister