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This is the dmbox or disambiguation footer message box meta-template.
It is used to build disambiguation and set index article boxes, such as disambig and shipindex. 
This template works similarly to ambox and mostly uses the same parameters. The main differences are that this box uses the disambig style and only has two "type" settings.

**Usage**
Simple usage example:
Complex example:
Some other parameter combinations:

**Parameters**
List of all parameters:
type
If no type parameter is given the template defaults to type disambig. 
disambig = Makes it so the disambig editintro is displayed when editing a page with this template on. (Means that this template internally sets the CSS id "disambigbox". The id is used by the javascript in MediaWiki:Common.js to determine if a page is a disambiguation page or not.) And adds :Category:All disambiguation pages and :Category:All article disambiguation pages.
setindex = Does not trigger the disambig editintro when editing a page. (Because this instead sets the CSS id "setindexbox".) And adds :Category:All set index articles.
nocat
true = Stops this template from categorizing. Useful for instance when only testing or demonstrating this template. Templates that use this template should forward nocat, so they too understand nocat. So always add this: 
:
image
No parameter = If no image parameter is given, the template uses the default disambig or setindex image, depending on the type parameter.
An image = Should be an image with usual wiki notation. 30px - 50px width are usually about right depending on the image height to width ratio. (But the message box can handle images of any size.) For example: 
:
none = Means that no image is used.
imageright
No parameter = If no imageright parameter is given then no image is shown on the right side.
An image = Should be an image with usual wiki notation. 30px - 50px width are usually about right depending on the image height to width ratio. (But the message box can handle images of any size.) For example: 
:
Anything = Any other object that you want to show on the right side.
style
Optional CSS values used by the entire message box table. Without quotation marks " " but with the ending semicolons ;. For example:
:style = margin-bottom: 0.2em;
textstyle
Optional CSS values used by the text cell. For example:
:textstyle = text-align: center;
text
The message body text. This message box has italic text as default, thus no need to manually set that.

**Technical details**
This template currently uses hard coded styles and class names. Later it will only use CSS classes making it easier to skin. (In the meantime it can be skinned by using the "!important" keyword.)
If you need to use special characters in the text parameter then you need to escape them like this: 
. 
And now a pipe and end braces .
}}
. 
And now a pipe and end braces .
}}
Internally, this meta-template uses HTML markup instead of wiki markup for the table code. That is the usual way we make meta-templates since wiki markup has several drawbacks. For instance it makes it harder to use parser functions and special characters in parameters. 
For more technical details see the talk page. Since this template works almost exactly like ambox, tmbox, imbox, cmbox and ombox their talk pages and related pages might also contain more details.

**See also**
Other pages:- Wikipedia:Disambiguation – Also has a section explaining set index articles.- Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation- MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage – Should list all disambiguation message boxes, so that some automatic tools can know what pages are disambiguation pages. Now also has a separate list with all set index message boxes, so some tools can know what pages are set index articles.- disambig – The generic disambiguation message box.- SIA – The generic set index article message box.
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