Template:Chart/doc

This template produces one row in a "family tree"-like chart consisting of boxes and connecting lines based loosely on an ASCII art-like syntax. The trees are displayed as HTML tables using CSS attributes, and may contain arbitrary wiki markup within the boxes. This template as copied off of Wikipeda, with influence from the modified UESP's Chart template.

Example of usage
This code:

Produces this:

This chart visually displays the information that I have a brother Joe and a little sister; my mom married my dad; and my dad's parents were Grandma and Grandpa; and my dad's parent's had another child, Aunt Daisy.

Parameters
The template accepts up to 30 unnamed parameters describing the contents of the table, with each parameter specifying a tile or a box.


 * Tiles are line drawing symbols used to connect the boxes. They consist of various styles of horizontal and vertical lines along with corners and crossings as needed. Tiles are specified using one-character symbols: for the most common tiles, that character is more or less approximate the shape of the tile in appearance. A special case of a tile is the empty tile, specified by a single space character. A table of available tiles is given below.


 * Boxes can contain arbitrary wiki markup. The content of each box is specified using additional named parameters appended to the template call. Each box is three tiles wide and normally has a black border two pixels wide. Boxes can have any name that is a valid template parameter name, subject to a minimum of two alphabetical characters.

Style attributes
The appearance of the boxes in a row may be controlled by the following optional template parameters: For example, the following code:
 * border specifies the width of the box border in pixels,
 * boxstyle can be used to append arbitrary CSS declarations directly to the box style attributes.

produces this chart:

Style attributes can even be set for individual boxes, as in the example below:

which produces this:

NOTE: When specifying style attributes for individual named boxes, make sure the box names are aligned to the left side of the area reserved for them in the template call (as in " " instead of " " in the example above), otherwise the template will end up looking for a style parameter with spaces in its name.

The Chart/start template also accepts an optional style parameter that can be used to set CSS styles for the entire diagram.