Module:Side box/doc

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It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original Module page.

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This Lua module is used on many pages.

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Uses Lua:

Module:Yesno

This module uses TemplateStyles:

This module implements the {{Side box }} template.

Usage from wikitext

This module cannot be used directly from wikitext. It can only be used through the {{Side box }} template. Please see the template page for documentation.

Usage from Lua modules

To use this module from other Lua modules, first load the module.

local mSideBox = require('Module:Side box')

You can then generate a side box using the _main function.

mSideBox._main(args)

The args variable should be a table containing the arguments to pass to the module. To see the different arguments that can be specified and how they affect the module output, please refer to the {{Side box }} template documentation.