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The template {{Glossary}} (a.k.a. {{glossary start}} or {{glossary begin}}) is used with {{Glossary end}} to explicitly bracket a Glossary or Glossary-like description list (also called a definition list or association list), especially in a template-structured Glossary, although such lists can be used more generally. This is required (as a technical matter) for template-structured glossaries, and is good practice anywhere description/definition lists are used for glossaries. The template pair invoke the The pair of templates incidentally prevent Wikipedia's MediaWiki software engine from auto-creating redundant definition list code ( Typical usage: {{Glossary}} {{Term}} {{Defn}} {{Glossary end}}
This shows both a very simple then a rather complex instance in a structured Glossary (including an entry with a block quotation, using the Glossary block quotation template, {{Gbq}}):
This family of templates, like the underlying definition list code, is primarily intended for definitional uses, but can have other applications. The HTML 4.01 Specification itself says:
Thus, editors should feel free to use definition list markup as an alternative to bulleted or numbered lists when the material is well-suited to definition list presentation. |
The above documentation is transcluded from Teamplaid:Glossary/documentation. (edit | history) Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages. Subpages of this template. |