Template:Shortcut/doc

This is the documentation for shortcut and its sister templates.

shortcut-l flows to the left of the page and shortcut flows to the right.

Usage
These templates are mainly used on pages and talk pages in the Wikipedia, Help and Portal namespaces. These templates inform about the shortcuts available to the page they are on. For example, WP:SHORT redirects to Shortcut and therefore Wikipedia:Shortcut has a shortcut box listing WP:SHORT.

The point of these templates is not to list every single redirect (indeed, that's what Special:WhatLinksHere is for); for any given page, instead they should list only one or two common and easily-remembered redirects.

These templates can take up to 5 shortcuts as parameters.

For policy pages you can use which takes up to 10 shortcuts as parameters.

Anchors
These boxes automatically adds anchors. If a shortcut box with the shortcut WP:SHORT is placed on the page Shortcut then the link Shortcut will take you to the position in the page where that shortcut box is placed.

For instance, try this link:

Thus if you make a shortcut for a section of a page then you can use the anchor in the shortcut redirect. Like this: