Template:Dir
ltr
Outputs "rtl" for right-to-left languages, else "ltr". Same as {{#dir}} parser function, except that this template (or its associated module) is NOT limited to 20 languages per page (like the Mediawiki parserfunction) and does not need localisation support inside Mediawiki itself. So it correctly handles thousands languages (even if they are still not supported for the Mediawiki UI itself) and does not need to find and load their locale data when you use the parser function (which works reliably only within the supported user's display language or in the default language of the wiki, and gives unpredictable results otherwise on page displaying many languages for example in multilingual descriptions).
Usage
{{Dir |1= |2= |3= }}
Template parameters
- TemplateData
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Existing template documentation
At Wikimedia Commons, it is recommended to use {{TemplateBox}} with either useTemplateData=1
or useTemplateData=only
on the /doc
subpage and transcluding it with {{Documentation}} into the template. <nowiki>
-tags can be wrapped around the arguments, if required, to avoid templates being expanded.
Newly created template documentation and imports
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-tags into the Wikitext of the template, as described in various Wikipediae.
Wikipedia's help about TemplateData • Commons-specific information
Outputs "rtl" for right-to-left languages, else "ltr". Same as {{#dir}} parser function, except that this template (or its associated module) is NOT limited to 20 languages per page (like the Mediawiki parserfunction) and does not need localisation support inside Mediawiki itself. So it correctly handles thousands languages (even if they are still not supported for the Mediawiki UI itself) and does not need to find and load their locale data when you use the parser function (which works reliably only within the supported user's display language or in the default language of the wiki, and gives unpredictable results otherwise on page displaying many languages for example in multilingual descriptions).
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
language | 1 | The language code | Line | required |
rtl | 2 | Text to return for right-to-left languages (such as Arabic or Hebrew, and others listed in the main description of the template).
| Content | optional |
ltr | 3 | Text to return for left-to-right languages (such as English and all others not listed in the main description of the template).
| Content | optional |
Additional information
The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the Template namespace
The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users
See also
{{#dir}}
parser function
Localization
This template is not intended to be localized.
Example
{{ Dir | {{{ lang| {{int:lang}} }}} | right | left }} will return either "left" or "right" for rtl ot ltr
{{ Dir | en | right | left }} returns left, and {{ Dir | ar | right | left }} returns right