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Per Forum:CT:Familytree usage, this template is only to be used on articles that are familial-type groups, including clans, flocks, and other cultural group equivalents that utilize a {{Family}} infobox.

Documentation

Tool for family trees. This implementation is primarily from wikipedia, and is based on their now deprecated FamilyTree template.

Example usage

This code:

{{FamilyTree/start}}
{{FamilyTree|PA|y|AN|PA=[[Padmé Amidala]]|AN=[[Anakin Skywalker]]
|boxstyle_PA=f
|boxstyle_AN=m}}
{{FamilyTree| |,|-|^|-|.| |}}
{{FamilyTree|LE| |LU|LE=[[Runningwind]]|LU=[[Mousefur]]
|boxstyle_LE=f
|boxstyle_LU=m}}
{{FamilyTree/end}}

Results in:

Padmé Amidala ♀Anakin Skywalker ♂
Leia Organa ♀Luke Skywalker ♂

Parameters

The {{FamilyTree}} 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.

  • 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
{{{u}}}
q
}
{{{}}}}
*
{
{{{{}}}
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.

Style attributes

The color of the boxes may be can be changed; these colors are slightly different and adapt to both light and dark mode for readability (as do the borders and lines of the trees).

Key:

m — male
f — female
u — unspecified/non-binary
{{FamilyTree/start}}
{{FamilyTree|PAR1|y|PAR2||PAR1=A [[Barash Silvain's parents|parent]]|PAR2=A [[parent]]|boxstyle_PAR1=u|boxstyle_PAR2=u}}
{{FamilyTree| |,|-|^|.|}}
{{FamilyTree|BARASH| |SIB||BARASH=[[Barash Silvain]]|SIB=[[Barash Silvain's siblings]]|boxstyle_BARASH=f|boxstyle_SIB=u}}
{{FamilyTree/end}}
</nowiki>

produces a result like this:

A parentA parent
Barash Silvain ♀Barash Silvain's siblings