# வார்ப்புரு:Reflist/doc


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This provides formatting and organizational features for . It encapsulates the tag used by the MediaWiki extension to show the list of references as defined by tags. It adds support for a reduced font size, columns, groups and .  

## Parameters

- **column-count**: specifies a fixed number as to how many columns into which the reference list is to be rendered
- **column-width**: establishes column width for the reference list based on a typographic unit of measurement
:If a single unnamed parameter is supplied, it is treated as a **column-count** if it is a natural number or as a **column-width** if it is a typographic unit of measurement such as em.  
- **refs**: used with named references (e.g. ); it specifies a list of some or all named references used in the article
- **group**: identifies by name the subset of references to be rendered; the value should correspond to that used inline, e.g. renders all references with groupname as the group name
- **liststyle**: specifies the style used when the reference list is enumerated; if is specified, the default is to render a numbered list
- **close**: forces the reference list to close and render all references defined to that point; see the section on multiple uses for the details.

## Usage

### Columns
Using will create a two-column reference list, and will create a three-column list, and so on. Choose the number of columns that is appropriate for the average width of the references on the page.  

Using will create columns with a minimum width of 30 em, allowing the browser to automatically choose the number of columns based on the width of the web browser. Choose a column width that is appropriate for the average width of the references on the page.  

Columns are currently supported only by Gecko-based browsers (such as Mozilla Firefox) and WebKit-based browsers (such as Google Chrome and Safari). See below for more information.  

The use of columns can result in widows and orphans, where a citation at the bottom of a column may be split to the top of the next column. There are CSS3 selectors that could resolve this, but they are not yet supported by any major browsers.  

See also bug combining grouped references and columns.  

### List styles

Reference lists are by default numbered lists. By using the parameter, you can control how the list is rendered. For example, using will result in items being prefixed with roman numerals instead of decimal numbers. The parameter accepts any valid CSS value defined for <code>list-style-type</code> as shown below.  

The citations in the reference list will show the default decimal styling if:  
- The value for does not exactly match one of the predefined values
- The value for is enclosed by quotes
- is indented with the : markup

### Multiple uses

If is used multiple times without a parameter, each instance will include all of the previously defined references. To force the parser to close previous references, each use of must be forced as a new instance by the use of any parameter. If no parameter is desired, the convention is to use the undefined parameter .  

### List-defined references

A list of references may be defined within using the parameter, just like including named  
|This is reference 1.  

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### Grouped references
As of June 2008, the footnotes system supports the separation of references into groups. This allows groups for explanatory notes, table references and the like. See WP:REFGROUP.  

The general format for the reference tag is:  

:  

And using for the reflist:  
:  

:Where *groupname* would be a group identifier such as "note", "nb" or "label".  

There are three pre-defined group names that will automatically cause the link labels and this template to display other characters instead of numbers (see List styles above). These are: "lower-alpha" (a, b, c...), "lower-greek" (α, β, γ...) and "lower-roman" (i, ii, iii...) and must be written without quotes.  

See also bug combining grouped references and columns.  

## Font size
The font size should reduce to 90% for most browsers, but may appear to show at 100% for Internet Explorer and possibly other browsers.  

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