Template:Marriage

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Usage

This template is intended for use in infoboxes; specifically {{Infobox person}} and templates calling Infobox person.

{{Marriage}} takes up to three unnamed parameters (name, start date, end date)—plus an optional named parameter |end= (|reason=)—to produce output such as the following:

Examples

Template	Output

Use of the first two parameters with |end= (|reason=) will cause a line break between the name and the start date.

In an infobox

{{Infobox person}}
Spouses	John Smith ​ (m. Template:Tooltip⁠–⁠Template:Tooltip)​ John Doe ​ ​ (m. 1885; died Template:Tooltip)​ Jane Doe ​ (m. 2002)​ John Q. Public ​ (m. 2002⁠–⁠2010)​ John Q. Citizen ​ ​ (m. 2002; div. 2010)​ ​ ​ (m. 2012)​ John Q. Taxpayer ​ ​ (m. 2002, divorced)​ Joe Blow ​ (div. 2010)​ Joe Bloggs ​ (before 2010)​ Joe Sixpack ​ (until 2010)​ Joe Schmo ​ (divorced)​ Juan Perez ​ (after 2010)​

Infoboxes already reduce text size to 88%, and MOS:FONTSIZE sets a lower limit for text size at 85% of the normal page font size, so it is not appropriate to use font size reduction when this template is used in an infobox. The example here is produced by: <syntaxhighlight style="font-size:small;" lang="wikitext">

Marriage
Spouses	John Smith ​ (m. Template:Tooltip⁠–⁠Template:Tooltip)​ John Doe ​ ​ (m. 1885; died Template:Tooltip)​ Jane Doe ​ (m. 2002)​ John Q. Public ​ (m. 2002⁠–⁠2010)​ John Q. Citizen ​ ​ (m. 2002; div. 2010)​ ​ ​ (m. 2012)​ John Q. Taxpayer ​ ​ (m. 2002, divorced)​ Joe Blow ​ (div. 2010)​ Joe Bloggs ​ (before 2010)​ Joe Sixpack ​ (until 2010)​ Joe Schmo ​ (divorced)​ Juan Perez ​ (after 2010)​

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Syntax and parameters

{{marriage | <text> | <start date> | <end date> [| end= ]}}

Parameter	Description
<text>	(First unnamed parameter) Some text—usually a spouse's name—preceding the parenthesis carrying the marriage date/s, etc. This parameter may be omitted, typically for a remarriage to the same spouse.
<start date>	(Second unnamed parameter) Year or full date when the marriage began. Only the year will be displayed. If a full date is provided, it is given via a tooltip; i.e., {{Tooltip}}. (See first and second examples above.)
<end date>	(Third unnamed parameter) Year or full date when the marriage ended. Only the year will be displayed. If a full date is provided, it is given via a tooltip; i.e., {{Tooltip}}. (See first and second examples above.) If the marriage ended because of the death of the article's subject, Template:Insource.
|end= or |reason=	Reason for marriage's end. If the marriage ended because of the death of the article's subject, Template:Insource; use of his death or her death for this purpose has been deprecated (see discussion). d, d., or died includes Template:Xtn within the parentheses if the marriage ended on the spouse's death. div, div., or divorced includes Template:Xtn or Template:Xtn within the parentheses. Otherwise, |end=value includes customized text. For example: Usage Wraps a short span of text in <syntaxhighlight> tags (see mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight). This template should be used for short samples; longer content should use <pre>...</pre> or <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>. See Help:Wiki markup for an explanation of what the various tags do. If the content includes an equals sign (=), you must specify the parameter explicitly: {{code|1=date=30 Feb 2010}}. The template uses the <syntaxhighlight> tag with the attribute inline=1. This works like the combination of the <code> and <nowiki> tags, applied to the expanded wikitext. For example, {{code|some '''wiki''' text}} will not render the word "wiki" in bold, and will render the tripled-single-quotes: However, {{code|a {{template}} call}} will still invoke the template: Use <nowiki>...</nowiki> around the template name to avoid this problem: When used inline with regular text, {{code}} generally looks best and is easiest to read when it is explicitly spaced apart from the regular text: is well spaced: foo    quux. versus: which is going to be visually confusing for many: foo quux. because "foo" and "" will seem more closely associated than "" and ""; the width of the space character in a monospaced font is almost always larger than in a proportional font. Use parameter {{{2}}} (unnamed, as |2=, or more explicitly as |lang=) to specify a language for mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight. This option defaults to plain-text, i.e. no highlighting. There is no highlighting option for wikitext as a markup language, though and are valid values, as are , , , , and many others. Attempting to use an invalid one causes a list of valid ones to be displayed in place of the template output, when the page is previewed or saved. This template does not need to be substituted. Examples Markup Renders as Included templates Embedded templates do not function as expected inside {{code}}; for longer, free-form blocks of code, which can contain templates such as {{var}} and {{samp}}, use <code>...</code> as a wrapper instead of this template. Templates used inside {{code}} expose the rendered HTML— this can be useful. For example: Markup Renders as The above example shows the HTML rendered by the citation template, including the hidden metadata. TemplateData This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData. TemplateData for Marriage See also {{codett}}, wrapper for this template that removes background and border styling {{mono}}, monospaced font only {{param value}}, monospaced; friendly handling for blank space {{Syntaxhighlight}} {{kbd}}, for keyboard input Help:Wiki markup which produces: Template:Qnote

None of the parameters are required on their own, but if a template is missing all three of start date, end date, and reason, an error message will be displayed.

Tracking categories

Categories populated via template logic

• Category:Marriage template errors (0): invalid or missing dates; unsupported parameters or values
  • Category:Marriage template deprecations (0)
  • Category:Marriage template anomalies (0)

Categories populated via parameter validation

• Category:Pages using Marriage with duplicate parameters (0)
• Category:Pages using Marriage with unknown parameters (0)
• Category:Pages using Marriage with deprecated parameters (0)

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData.

TemplateData for Marriage

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Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Spouse's name	1	Name of the person to whom the subject is married.	String	suggested
Date married	2	Date the marriage began.	Date	suggested
Date ended	3	Date the marriage was dissolved or the spouse of the article's subject died.	Date	optional
Reason ended	end reason	Reason for marriage's end. If the marriage ended because of the death of the article's subject, do not provide a reason. Suggested values died divorced	String	optional

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