Module:Calendar widget/doc

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Usage

{{#invoke:Calendar widget|calendar}}

Parameters

Calendar parameters

• Template:Para – specifies the year to be used when creating a monthly or yearly calendar; Gregorian calendar only; minimum 1583 for yearly calendar; minimum October 1582 for stand-alone month calendar; when omitted or out of range, uses current year
• Template:Para – specifies the month to be used when creating an stand-alone month calendar in the year specified by Template:Para; accepts a variety values:

  numbers 1 to 12 – defaults to current month when month number is out of range

  month names (January, March, etc) – defaults to current month when month name is not recognized

  keywords:

  current – display the current month

  last – display the month that occurs before the current month

  next – display the month that occurs after the current month

• Template:Para – yearly calendars only; number of columns Template:Var to be used for calendar rendering; default is 4; values of Template:Var less than 1 or greater than 12 ignored
• Template:Para – accepts the single value yes; calendar renders in ISO week format (Monday through Sunday); not needed if Template:Para set
• Template:Para – accepts the single value yes; calendar renders in ISO week format (Monday through Sunday) with ISO week number in the left column; setting Template:Para automatically sets Template:Para

Styling parameters

• Template:Para – position the rendered calendar; default position is at the left page margin:

  center – middle of the page

  right – at the right page margin

• Template:Para – accepts the single value yes; suppresses display of year in calendar headers; alias Template:Para
• Template:Para – accepts the single value yes; highlights the current date in the current-month calendar
• Template:Para – set the highlight color used by Template:Para; alias: Template:Para
• Template:Para – set background color for the month title bar; overrides Template:Para; alias: Template:Para
• Template:Para – set background color for the day-abbreviations title bar; overrides Template:Para; alias: Template:Para
• Template:Para – shorthand for both Template:Para and Template:Para; Template:Para yields to Template:Para and Template:Para; alias: Template:Para
• Template:Para – set background color for ISO week numbers; alias: Template:Para

Linking parameters

• Template:Para – various date component linking options:

  d – link days in calendar to calendar day of calendar month – [[November 14]]

  m – link month in calendar header to month article – [[November]] 2019

  y – link year in calendar header to year article – November [[2024]]

  dm – link to days and month

  dy – link to days and year

  my – link to month and year

  yes – individually link all date components

  m&y – stand-alone month calendars only; link month and year together as a single composite link – [[November 2024]]

  dm&y – stand-alone month calendars only; link to days and composite month/year

Link prefixes and suffixes

These parameters require Template:Para:

• Template:Para – prefix for all day, month, and year links enabled by Template:Para; yields to specific Template:Para parameters
• Template:Para – suffix for all day, month, and year links enabled by Template:Para; yields to specific Template:Para parameters

These parameters automatically set Template:Para to the appropriate value; override values assigned to Template:Para and Template:Para:

• Template:Para – prefix for day links
• Template:Para – prefix for month and composite month/year links
• Template:Para – prefix for year links
• Template:Para – suffix for day links
• Template:Para – suffix for month links and composite month/year links
• Template:Para – suffix for year links

For stand-alone month calendars only, links to previous- and next-month targets:

• Template:Para – accepts the single value yes; adds generic << and >> links to month header linked to the preceding and next month articles; automatically set if any of the following parameters are set:
  • Template:Para – prefix for previous-month link
  • Template:Para – suffix for previous-month link
  • Template:Para – prefix for next-month link
  • Template:Para – suffix for next-month link

Examples

if the current page and section is [[An example page#May]] and there is a May calendar there, to offer links to the previous month (April) and next month (June) sections set:

Template:Para – creates link to [[An example page#April]]

Template:Para – creates link to [[An example page#June]]

if the current page is a subpage [[An example page/May]] and there is a May calendar there, to offer links to the previous month and next month subpages set:

Template:Para – creates link to [[An example page/April]]

Template:Para – creates link to [[An example page/June]]

in ../, .. is the parent ([[An example page]]) and / is the required path separator; see Uniform Resource Identifier