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Purpose

{{TOCleft}}

This template forces the auto-generated Table of Contents for an article to appear in a table that is floated to the left side of the page, in order to improve article layout.

Usage

Insert

at the point in the article where you want the top of the Table of Contents box to appear.

Example and cautions

← look to the left

Maybe be used with a {{-}} as to prevent images colliding with the TOC.

Note that this template should not be used when the result is to place the TOC in a visually poor location. A TOC that crosses a section division is probably a poor idea, if that can be avoided.

Unless the section in which the {{TOCleft}} is placed is long enough, the result may well be undesirable. Note particularly that if the TOC is floated left of a bulleted list, the bullets will be hidden.

An MOS entry on when to use this template, and the parallel template {{TOCright}} would probably be a good idea. A discussion is now (as of 7 July 2005) in progress at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Template:TOCright.

In general, it is probably better to insert {{TOCleft}} after the lead section, or at least the first paragraph.

History

• Template & Documented 5 July 2005 by User:DESiegel
• Created in response to the discussion of TOCright on TfD and elsewhere.
• Changed style statement to match what would be seen for a floating image, which uses the "thumb tleft" classes. 7 July 2005 by Mike