Editing Help:Variables (section)

==Behavior switches==
A behavior switch controls the layout or behaviour of the page and can often be used to specify desired omissions and inclusions in the content.

{| class="wikitable"
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! {{Hl2}}| Word
! {{Hl2}}| Description
! {{Hl2}}| Versions
|-
! {{Hl3}} colspan="3"| '''Table of contents'''
|-
| <code><nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki></code>
| Hides the table of contents (TOC).
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|-
| <code><nowiki>__FORCETOC__</nowiki></code>
| Forces the table of content to appear at its normal position (above the first header).
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|-
| <code><nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki></code>
| Places a table of contents at the word's current position (overriding <code><nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki></code>). If this is used multiple times, the table of contents will appear at the first word's position.
|
|-
! {{Hl3}} colspan="3"| '''Editing'''
|-
| <code><nowiki>__NOEDITSECTION__</nowiki></code>
| Hides the section edit links beside headings.
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|-
| <code><nowiki>__NEWSECTIONLINK__</nowiki></code>
| Adds a link ([[MediaWiki:Addsection|"+" by default]]) beside the "edit" tab for adding a new section on a non-talk page (see {{mediawiki|m:Help:Section#Adding a section at the end|Adding a section to the end}}).
| 1.7+
|-
| <code><nowiki>__NONEWSECTIONLINK__</nowiki></code>
| Removes the link beside the "edit" tab on pages in talk namespaces.
| {{mediawiki|rev:47522|1.15+}}
|-
! {{Hl3}} colspan="3"| '''Categories'''
|-
| <code><nowiki>__NOGALLERY__</nowiki></code>
| Used on a category page, replaces thumbnails in the category view with normal links.
| 1.7+
|-
| <code><nowiki>__HIDDENCAT__</nowiki></code>
| Used on a category page, hides the category from the lists of categories in its members and parent categories (there is an option in the [[Help:Preferences|user preferences]] to show them).<!-- hiddencategory hiddencat hide category categories -->
| 1.13+
|-
! {{Hl3}} colspan="3"| '''Language conversion'''
|-
| <code><nowiki>__NOCONTENTCONVERT__</nowiki></code> <br /> <code><nowiki>__NOCC__</nowiki></code>
| On wikis with language variants, don't perform any content language conversion (character and phase) in article display; for example, only show Chinese (zh) instead of variants like zh_cn, zh_tw, zh_sg, or zh_hk.
|
|-
| <code><nowiki>__NOTITLECONVERT__</nowiki></code> <br /> <code><nowiki>__NOTC__</nowiki></code>
| On wikis with language variants, don't perform language conversion on the title (all other content is converted).
| 
|-
! {{Hl3}} colspan="3"| '''Other'''
|-
| <code><nowiki>__START__</nowiki></code>
| No effect.
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|-
| <code><nowiki>__END__</nowiki></code>
| Explicitly marks the end of the article, to prevent MediaWiki from removing trailing whitespace. Removed in {{mediawiki|rev:19213|19213}}.
| 1.1–1.8
|-
| <code><nowiki>__INDEX__</nowiki></code>
| Tell search engines to index the page (overrides {{mediawiki|Manual:$wgArticleRobotPolicies|$wgArticleRobotPolicies}}, but not robots.txt).
| 1.14+
|- 
| <code><nowiki>__NOINDEX__</nowiki></code>
| Tell search engines not to index the page (ie, do not list in search engines' results).
| {{mediawiki|rev:37973|1.14+}}
|-
| <code><nowiki>__STATICREDIRECT__</nowiki></code>
| On redirect pages, don't allow MediaWiki to automatically update the link when someone moves a page and checks "Update any redirects that point to the original title".
| {{mediawiki|rev:37928|1.13+}}
|}