Template:Section length

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Returns the length of a given section of a page, the size of the longest section, or the size of the article.

Usage

{{section length|Article|Section}}
{{section length|Article|Section|nosep=y}}
{{section length|Article|Section|pct=y}}
{{section length|Article|token}}
{{section length|Article}}

Parameters

There is one required parameter, and four optional parameters:

• |1= – the name of the article or page (required)
• |2= – the section name, or a token with leading underscore (optional; if absent, _lead is the default):

  |2=SectionName – returns the length of the given section

  |2=_lead – returns the length of the lead section (default if param 2 is absent)

  |2=_max – returns the length of the longest section

  |2=_total – returns the length of the article (should = {{PAGESIZE}} )

• |3=_all – with param 2 set to a section name, add this to return section size including all its subsections (optional; default: return only the length before the first subsection heading)
• |pct= – set to any non-empty value, returns section length as percent of article length, rounded to 2 decimal places (optional)
• |nosep= – set to any non-empty value, returns byte length without thousand separators (optional; default: with separators)

Examples

• {{section length|World War II|Background}} →      – length in bytes of World War II#Background excluding subsections
• {{section length|World War II|Background|_all}} →      – length of World War II#Background including all subsections
• {{section length|World War II|_total}} →      – total length of World War II
• {{section length|World War II|nosep=y|_total}} →      – as above, without the comma
• {{section length|World War II|_lead}} →      – length in bytes of the lead
• {{section length|World War II|_lead|pct=y}} →      – length of the lead as a percent of article length
• {{section length|World War II|pct=y}} →      – same as above; param 2 is optional
• {{section length|World War II|_max}} →      – length in bytes of longest section
• {{section length|France|_total}} →      – total length in bytes of France
• {{section length|France|_lead}} →      – length of the lead section in bytes
• {{section length|France}} →      – same as above; param 2 is optional
• {{section length|France|pct=y}} →      – length of the lead section as a percent of article length
• {{section length|France|Environment}} →      – length of France#Environment
• {{section length|France|Environment|nosep=y}} →      – same, without thousands separator
• {{section length|France|Environment|pct=y}} →      – length of section as a percent of article length
• {{section length|France|Whoopsie!|pct=y}} →      – when the section doesn't exist
• {{section length|Franceee|pct=y}} →      – when the article doesn't exist

See also

• Module:Section sizes
• Template:Section sizes

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