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

Parameters

The Template:Para parameter of the Template:Tl template should be used to describe the overall layout of the tree. This summary is for accessibility: it is read aloud to visually impaired readers who use screen readers, and is invisible to sighted readers.

The Template:Tl template produces one row in a family tree table. The template accepts up to 80 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		V		7
D		%		C
L	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	A	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	J	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end
~	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	:	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end		Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end

Mixed (1):

r	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	y	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	n	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end
]	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	#	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	[	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end
c	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	h	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	j	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end
~	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	!	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end		Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end

Mixed (2):

p	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	u	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	q	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end
E	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	*	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	3	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end
b	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	t	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	d	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end
-	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	:	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end		Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end

Misc.:

		T	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end
G	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	X	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	K	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end	k	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end
		U	Template:Familytree/startTemplate:FamilytreeTemplate:Familytree/end

• 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.