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[edit] Always shown

Due to a bug fix with Common.js, these will now always be shown, no matter how many appear on a page. If you wish to fork this template to a version always hidden, add to the NavContent style="display:none;...." ←Ben^B4 13:29, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Interesting; this will allow us to have a "noshow" style on this template. Thanks for the suggestion! Kirill 01:38, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Convert to navbox from navbox generic

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I'm requesting that the "navbox generic" template call be replaced by the "navbox" template. The navbox is the new standard style. There should be no significant visible changes to instances of this template, only changes in how the underlying code is structured (and standardization). All that needs to be done is to delete the word "generic" in the first line of code. Thanks, --CapitalR 18:41, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Done. Kirill 18:53, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Refresh to update templates

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template:US Revolutionary units has been updated so that it actually follows the guidelines given for navbox layout (as opposed to pretending to be a campaign box). But because this article is fully-protected, the version transcluded here is out of date. The page needs to be refrehsed to pick up the template updates. Chris Cunningham 14:47, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

The documentation is actually at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Military navigation, which isn't protected. In any case, though, I've removed the hard-coded example; since both templates now use the same layout, there's no need to show both of them here. Kirill 15:17, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alternative parameter name, missing parameters

{{editprotected}} Hi. Please help this template resemble and work alongside {{Navbox}} more closely by:

• including name as an alternative name for raw_name;
• boosting the font-size used for groupnames by 10% (i.e. to 110% its current setting);
• including the groupstyle, liststyle, abovestyle, belowstyle parameters offered by {{Navbox}}.

Thanks. Sardanaphalus (talk) 10:26, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

In order:

1. Done.
2. Done.
3. Will not be done. The entire point of this template is to have a single style for everything using it; allowing style overrides on a per-transclusion basis would make it largely pointless.

Kirill 11:35, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

• Okay, understood. Thanks for 1 and 2. Sardanaphalus (talk) 13:09, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

  PS I guess for consistency's sake this template could/should be renamed "Military navbox"?

I would support the rename, but wouldn't that mean going through every transclusion and changing "military navigation" to "military navbox"? That would take a while. bahamut0013♠♣ 14:17, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] excess white bar when hidden

I've noticed with a few different templates that is you utilize the |image= code, it has a tendancy to add a white bar at the bottom of the nabox when collapsed. Any idea what causes this? It looks funny when stacked with normal navboxes. See Template:US Navy navbox for example. bahamut0013♠♣ 11:40, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Not sure, but I would guess that it's something with how the basic {{navbox}} handles images in certain cases, since this template doesn't do anything with the image parameters other than passing them straight through. Kirill 15:55, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Military navigation vs {{navbox}}

What does this template provide over the {{navbox}} family of templates? The only visual difference seems to be a variation in colors in the overall heading row. See John_Branch#Sources for a comparision and see {{USSecNavy}} for a diff between the two. If it is just the autocategorization into the wikiproject, wouldn't it make more sense to use the {{navbox}} and just add cats to that? My curious 2c. — MrDolomite • Talk 09:43, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

• I think the main point of the template has less to do with categorization and more to do with a standardized look and feel for military articles. Much like {{Navbox musical artist}} and other similar templates, this one forces a standard color scheme and size to ensure the military boxes look the same and line up with each other. This template actually uses {{Navbox}} under the hood, so it is basically in the same template family. --CapitalR (talk) 12:53, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Yep. While I'm all for standardisation, insofar as this is just a custom derivation of {{navbox}} it's perfectly fitting with that. I'd rather that people dispensed with it and just created navboxen with class="military-navigation" or whatever, but that's really just syntactical bickering. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 13:17, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes, the main use of this isn't the color, but rather the size+alignment needed to make things stack with the various standard military infoboxes. That's not really visible in {{USSecNavy}}, since that's set to be a full-width box; but compare, for example, {{Normandy battle beaches}}. Kirill ^(prof) 20:27, 31 July 2008 (UTC)