Module:Hatnote/doc

This is the documentation page for Module:Hatnote

Template:Used in system Template:Module rating Template:Lua Template:Uses TemplateStyles This is a meta-module that provides various functions for making hatnotes. It implements the Template:Tl template, for use in hatnotes at the top of pages. It also contains a number of helper functions for use in other Lua hatnote modules.

Use from wikitext edit

The functions in this module cannot be used directly from #invoke, and must be used through templates instead. Please see Template:Hatnote and Template:Format link for documentation.

Use from other Lua modules edit

To load this module from another Lua module, use the following code.

<syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> local mHatnote = require('Module:Hatnote') </syntaxhighlight>

You can then use the functions as documented below.

Hatnote edit

<syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> mHatnote._hatnote(s, options) </syntaxhighlight>

Formats the string s as a hatnote. This encloses s in the tags Template:Tag. Options are provided in the options table. Options include:

options.extraclasses - a string of extra classes to provide
options.selfref - if this is not nil or false, adds the class "selfref", used to denote self-references to Wikipedia (see Template:Selfref))

The CSS of the hatnote class is defined in Module:Hatnote/styles.css.

Example 1

<syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> mHatnote._hatnote('This is a hatnote.') </syntaxhighlight>

Produces: Template:Tag

Displays as: Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.

Example 2

<syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> mHatnote._hatnote('This is a hatnote.', {extraclasses = 'boilerplate seealso', selfref = true}) </syntaxhighlight>

Produces: Template:Tag

Displayed as: Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.

Find namespace id edit

<syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> mHatnote.findNamespaceId(link, removeColon) </syntaxhighlight>

Finds the namespace id of the string link, which should be a valid page name, with or without the section name. This function will not work if the page name is enclosed with square brackets. When trying to parse the namespace name, colons are removed from the start of the link by default. This is helpful if users have specified colons when they are not strictly necessary. If you do not need to check for initial colons, set removeColon to false.

Examples: Template:Code → 0; Template:Code → 14; Template:Code → 14; Template:Code → 0 (the namespace is detected as ":Category", rather than "Category")

Make wikitext error edit

<syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> mHatnote.makeWikitextError(msg, helpLink, addTrackingCategory) </syntaxhighlight>

Formats the string msg as a red wikitext error message, with optional link to a help page helpLink. Normally this function also adds Template:Clc. To suppress categorization, pass false as third parameter of the function (addTrackingCategory).

Examples:

Template:Code → Error: an error has occurred.

Template:Code → Error: an error has occurred (help).

Examples edit

For an example of how this module is used in other Lua modules, see Module:Labelled list hatnote