This template is used on many pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.
This template produces one row in a "family tree"-like chart consisting of boxes and connecting lines based loosely on an ASCII art-like syntax. It is meant to be used in conjunction with {{Tree chart/start}} and {{Tree chart/end}}. The chart is displayed as HTML tables using CSS attributes, and may contain arbitrary wiki markup within the boxes. This implementation was based on the now-deprecated {{family tree}} template.
{{Tree chart/start|align=center|summary=An example family tree}}{{Tree chart||||GrMa |~|y|~| GRP ||GrMa=Grandma|GRP=Grandpa}}{{Tree chart||||||||)|-|-|-|.|}}{{Tree chart||| MOM |y| DAD ||DAISY|MOM=Mom|DAD=Dad|DAISY=[[Aunt Daisy]]}}{{Tree chart||,|-|-|-|+|-|-|-|.|||}}{{Tree chart| JOE || ME || SIS |||JOE=My brother Joe|ME='''Me!'''|SIS=My little sister}}{{Tree chart/end}}
This chart visually displays the information that I have a brother Joe and a little sister; my mom married my dad;
and my dad's parents were Grandma and Grandpa; and my dad's parents had another child, Aunt Daisy. The code above produces a table of size 9 rows x 18 columns as shown below.
The table structure created using the example above
This chart visually displays the information that I have a brother Joe and a little sister; my mom married my dad;
and my dad's parents were Grandma and Grandpa; and my dad's parents had another child, Aunt Daisy.
The template accepts any number of unnamed parameters with each parameter specifying a tile or a box.
Boxes can contain arbitrary wiki markup. The content of each box is specified using additional named parameters appended to the template call. Each box is three tiles wide and normally has a black border two pixels wide. Boxes can have any name that is a valid template parameter name, subject to a minimum of two alphabetical characters.
Tiles are line drawing symbols used to connect the boxes. They consist of various styles of horizontal and vertical lines along with corners and crossings as needed. Tiles are specified using their one- or two-character name: for the most common tiles, that character is more or less approximate to the tile's appearance. A special case of a tile is the empty tile, specified by a single space character. A table of available tiles is given below.
Solid lines:
!
,
v
.
-
)
+
(
`
^
'
Dashed lines:
:
F
V
7
~
D
%
C
L
A
J
Dotted lines:
Q
S
M
T
P
H
R
G
Y
W
Z
Horiz dashed, vert solid:
fy
y
ye
f
t
e
fh
h
he
Horiz solid, vert dashed:
dj
j
jc
d
*
c
di
i
ic
Horiz solid, vert dotted:
kr
r
rl
k
a
l
kq
q
ql
Horiz dashed, vert dotted:
kr2
r2
rl2
k2
a2
l2
kq2
q2
ql2
Horiz dotted, vert solid:
om
m
mp
o
b
p
on
n
np
Horiz dotted, vert dashed:
om2
m2
mp2
o2
b2
p2
on2
n2
np2
Miscellaneous (grey background not available in, or changed from, familytree):
Template:Warnsign When specifying style attributes for individual named boxes, make sure the box names are aligned to the left side of the area reserved for them in the template call (as in "|RED |" instead of "| RED |" in the example above), otherwise the template will end up looking for a style parameter with spaces in its name.
The {{Tree chart/start}} template also accepts an optional |style= parameter that can be used to set CSS styles for the entire diagram, and an optional |align= parameter to set the chart alignment.
