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

Table Set Up

The summary in {{Family tree/start|summary=TEXT HERE}} appears as tool-tip text when the user hovers over the table, it should contain a general description of the table contents. {{Family tree/start}} also provides the formatting to begin the table.

The {{family tree}} 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.

{{Family tree/end}} simply provides the end </table> for the table.

Parameters

• 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		A		J
~		:

Mixed (1):

r		y		n
]		#		[
c		h		j
~		!

Mixed (2):

p		u		q
E		*		3
b		t		d
-		:

Misc.:

		T
G		X		K		k
		U

• 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.