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This is the {{tl|nowraplinks}} template.

This template works in conjunction with {{tl|nowraplinks end}} to prevent word wraps (line breaks) inside links that include a space or spaces while allowing wraps between links and in normal text. This can be useful, for instance, in long lists of links. It is similar to {{tl|nowrap begin}}...{{tl|nowrap end}}.

Reading [[Wikipedia:Line-break handling]] is recommended before starting to use this template.

====Usage====
<pre><nowiki>
{{nowraplinks}}

[[This link will not wrap]] - [[This link also won't wrap]] -
[[And so on]] - But this sentence might word wrap.

{{nowraplinks end}}
</nowiki></pre>

<pre><nowiki>
{{nowraplinks | [[This link will not wrap]] - [[This link also won't wrap]] -
[[And so on]] - But this sentence might word wrap. }}
</nowiki></pre>

Both examples will render something like this:

:[[Template:Nowraplinks end|This link will not wrap]] - <br>
:[[Template:Nowraplinks end|This link also won't wrap]] - <br>
:[[Template:Nowraplinks end|And so on]] - But this sentence <br>
:might word wrap.

But they will ''not'' render like this:

:[[Template:Nowraplinks end|This link will not wrap]] - [[Template:Nowraplinks end|This link]]<br>
:[[Template:Nowraplinks end|shouldn't have wrapped]] - [[Template:Nowraplinks end|And so on]] -<br>
:But this sentence might word wrap.

===Advanced usage===
Most of the functionality in this template is implemented as a CSS class in [[MediaWiki:Common.css|common.css]]. That class can be used together with pretty much any HTML tag or any box to prevent links to word wrap. For instance like this:
:<code><nowiki><div class="nowraplinks"> Lots of text and links </div></nowiki></code>
Or like this:
:<code><nowiki><span class="nowraplinks"> Lots of text and links </span></nowiki></code>

If the nowraplinks class is applied in the header of a table it will prevent line wrapping of links in ''all'' cells in the table. Note that in a table header there usually is a need to apply several classes. Then the class names should be separated by spaces in the class tag, not by commas or semicolons. Like this:

<pre><nowiki>
{| class="wikitable nowraplinks"
|
[[This link will not wrap]]{{·}}
[[This link also won't wrap]]{{·}}
[[And so on]]{{·}}
But this sentence might word wrap.
|
[[This link will not wrap]]{{·}}
[[This link also won't wrap]]{{·}}
[[And so on]]{{·}}
But this sentence might word wrap.
|}
</nowiki></pre>

It will render this:

{| class="wikitable nowraplinks"
|
[[Template:Nowraplinks end|This link will not wrap]]{{·}}
[[Template:Nowraplinks end|This link also won't wrap]]{{·}}
[[Template:Nowraplinks end|And so on]]{{·}}
But this sentence might word wrap.
|
[[Template:Nowraplinks end|This link will not wrap]]{{·}}
[[Template:Nowraplinks end|This link also won't wrap]]{{·}}
[[Template:Nowraplinks end|And so on]]{{·}}
But this sentence might word wrap.
|}

To really see the nowrap effect on the links above you can drag the width of your web browser window so it becomes smaller and smaller.

===Technical details===
The actual code that does the job is this [[CSS]] code in [[MediaWiki:Common.css|Common.css]].

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
.nowraplinks a,
.nowraplinks .selflink {
white-space: nowrap;
}
</syntaxhighlight>

It simply means that any white-space inside links (HTML A tags) and bold "links" to the page itself are not allowed to wrap.

It is then invoked like this:
:<code><nowiki><span class="nowraplinks"> Lots of text and links </span></nowiki></code>

That span code is what the {{tl|nowraplinks}} and {{tl|nowraplinks end}} tags are packaging in an easy to use way.

The [[Template:Navbox|standard navboxes]] use the .nowraplinks class, thus automatically handling most wrapping problems in those navboxes.

===See also===
{{List of nowrap-like templates}}

<includeonly>{{Sandbox other||

[[Category:Line-handling templates]]

[[et:Mall:Nowraplinks]]
[[ja:Template:Nowraplinks]]
}}</includeonly>

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