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Peter Wirdemo
Peter Wirdemo

Reputation: 526

Navigate Mediawiki category pages through a dropdownbox on wiki page

I have hundreds of pages in the same category and I need a way to add a navigation "form" (or equivalent) on top of every page inside that category using a dropdownbox. I can't use Extensions categorytree or Tree and Menu, for what I know, because their presentation is to big. Even a collapsed clickable tree expands and pushing the actual page to far down.

I have the extensions Semantic MediaWiki and DynamicPageList among other extensions. A list of links to pages inside category "Test" is easily added to a page using the following syntax:

{{#dpl:category=Test|format=,*,[[%PAGE%]]\n,}}

The result looks something like this (with clickable links):

The presentation is to big for me when the amount of pages exceeds 100. Is there any way to add the list of page link to a dropdownbox and if neccessary combine it with a "Navigate to"-button and paste that to a page?

I have investigated the possibility using a Semantic Form but dont understand how I can paste the Form to a page.

What I want is what in plain HTML looks like this:

<select>
 <option>Milk</option>
 <option>Coffee</option>
 <option>Tea</option>
</select>

I need it to enable the user to quickly browse to any of the pages inside a Category. The current page inside the Category should be "Default" so that it is easy to find the previous and next page from the dropdown.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 392

Answers (1)

Kyle Wiering
Kyle Wiering

Reputation: 474

I realize this was a long time ago - but I didn't see anything on MediaWiki. I created CategoryDropdown. I'm not certain it meets your exact needs, but possibly. It is currently listed as 'beta'. We'll see if it survives the review process.

Upvotes: 1

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