Wikibooks:Templates/Navigation

Indexed navigation

 * Look in the Table of Contents templates category for a more extensive list.

The MediaWiki software automatically generates a table of contents on pages with several sections. These appear by default right before the first section. Floating these to either side is easy to do using HTML markup, but to simplify matters further Wikibookians can use these templates to automatically generate the necessary code.

The "compact" templates work on pages that have sections with single, upper-case characters.

Linear navigation

 * Look in the Navigational templates category for a more extensive list.

While wikibooks are not made of paper, many are read in a linear fashion similar to traditionally printed and bound books. For this reason and many others, it's important to provide some form of page navigation mechanism in your wikibooks that functions the same way flipping a page in a printed book does. Sometimes wikibook editors create their own custom navigation templates, but the ones featured below provide a good assortment of the extra features that motivate people to create those custom templates and have demonstrated reliability in doing so, making them an excellent place to start when looking to choose a page navigation style.