Template:Search link/doc

This is the {{search link}} template.

It creates a link to the Wikibooks search.

Usage

Wikibooks namespaces
Basic namespaces		Talk namespaces
0	Main	Talk	1
2	User	User talk	3
4	Wikibooks	Wikibooks talk	5
6	File	File talk	7
8	MediaWiki	MediaWiki talk	9
10	Template	Template talk	11
12	Help	Help talk	13
14	Category	Category talk	15
102	Cookbook	Cookbook talk	103
108	Transwiki	Transwiki talk	109
110	Wikijunior	Wikijunior talk	111
112	Subject	Subject talk	113
710	TimedText	TimedText talk	711
828	Module	Module talk	829
Virtual namespaces
-1	Special
-2	Media

This template takes one or more parameters. The first unnamed parameter is the word or phrase to search for. The second unnamed parameter is the caption for the link.

Here are some examples. Code to the left and actual rendering to the right:

{{search link|search string}} = search string

{{search link|search string|link text}} = link text

When doing a basic search like that Wikibooks only searches the namespaces that the user has set in "My preferences - Search - Namespaces". If you want to specify what namespaces the search will use, then this template has several ways to do that.

To search all namespaces:

{{search link|search string|ns=all}} = search string

{{search link|search string|link text|ns=all}} = link text

To specify some namespaces, for instance mainspace and its talk space (ns0 and ns1):

{{search link|search string||ns0|ns1}} = search string

{{search link|search string|link text|ns0|ns1}} = link text

Note the empty link text parameter in the first example above. That is because the parameters are unnamed. If "ns0" were fed as the second parameter then it would become the link text, not the first namespace to search.

See also

• {{search box}} - unrestricted search of any subset of any namespace