Template:County/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:County.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is used on approximately 8,200 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This template is used in navigational boxes relating to the Counties of England.

Usage

{{county
| name       = Name of the Template
| color      = Color of title bar (optional)
| flag       = FLAG OF THE COUNTY (optional)
| countyname = NAME OF THE COUNTY
| pt         = NAME OF THE COUNTY PORTAL
| cr         = ANY STATUTORY CITY REGIONS
| md         = ANY METROPOLITAN DISTRICTS
| ua         = ANY UNITARY AUTHORITIES
| bd         = ANY BOROUGHS OR DISTRICTS
| ct         = ANY CITIES OR TOWNS
| rv         = ANY RIVERS
| cl         = ANY CANALS
| topics     = Topics section
| other      = Any other information
| noportal   = yes (optional; use only if county has no portal)
}}

Microformat

The HTML mark-up produced by this template includes an hCard microformat that makes an organization's details readily parsable by computer programs. This aids tasks such as the cataloguing of articles and maintenance of databases. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please visit the Microformat WikiProject.

Subtemplates

Use {{Start date and age}} for the date on which an organisation was "established", "founded", "opened" or otherwise started, unless that date is before 1583 CE.
Use {{URL}} for an organisation's URL.

Please do not remove instances of these subtemplates.

Classes used

The HTML classes of this microformat include:

adr
agent
category
country-name
extended-address
fn
geo
label
latitude
locality
longitude
nickname
note
org
region
street-address
url
vcard

Please do not rename or remove these classes
nor collapse nested elements which use them.