Template:If mobile/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:If mobile.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

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This template uses TemplateStyles:

Template:If mobile/styles.css

Note that {{If mobile}} only works outside of the Template: namespace.

This template detects whether it is being used on the mobile version of Wikipedia (en.m.wikipedia.org), and displays different content accordingly.

Rationale

Some features work differently on the mobile website, such as slideshow galleries appearing as ordinary galleries. This templates allows better presentation of such content, by e.g. having a "Slideshow" heading when a slideshow is shown, and a "Gallery" heading when a regular gallery is shown. cghvhbkm,

Usage

{{If mobile|content for mobile website|content for desktop website}}

By default, <span>...</span> tags are used to wrap the specified content. A different tag may be specified using |tag=

E.g. |tag=div can be used if the content contains block-level elements.

Example

Normal usage

{{If mobile|A mobile user you are!|You are looking at the desktop site}}

Within the Template: namespace

Note that the behaviour is different when within the Template: namespace! (e.g. on this documentation page)

You are currently viewing the {{If mobile|mobile website|desktop website}}.

You are currently viewing the desktop websitemobile website.

Namespace and pagename-detecting templates

Namespace

Particular	Main other Talk other Category other Draft other File other Is Commons Help other Module other Portal other Template other User other Wikipedia other Single namespace If talkspace of If usertalk of
More generic	Namespace detect Namespace detect showall Main talk other Main talk other flex Talkspace detect

Pagename

When on basepage	Detects and acts according to whether it is on a basepage or on any subpage (that is, a `../..` subpage).
When pagename is	For pattern matching on the pagename.
Module:Page	Can take apart and put together pagenames in several ways.
IP-talk	Returns IP-user talkpage, registered-user talkpage or non-user talkpage.
IP-user other	For detecting IP-user pages.
Subpage other	Pagename has an after-slash part (not in mainspace)
Sandbox other	Page is subpage /sandbox (template space)
Testcases other	Page is subpage /testcases (template space)
Rootpage other	Page is rootpage (vs. /subpage) (template space)

Others

Stub other	Detects whether it is on a page with a stub template or not.
If preview	Detects whether page is viewed as a preview or not.
If IP	Displays different content to IP users and logged-in users.
If autoconfirmed	Displays different content to autoconfirmed and non-autoconfirmed users.
If extended confirmed	Displays different content to extended confirmed and non-extended confirmed users.
If administrator	Displays different content to admins and non-admins.
If mobile	Displays different content to mobile users and desktop users.
If checkuser	Displays different content to checkusers and non-checkusers.
Noscript	Detects whether page is viewed with a JavaScript-capable client or not.

Contents

Rationale

Usage

Example

Normal usage

Within the Template: namespace

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