* George Herbert <[email protected]> [Fri, 4 Sep 2009 20:03:03 
-0700]:
> I'm not at all familiar with the magic words handling stuff; I have a
> desire to be able to hide lower level headings absolutely (toclimit-3
> for example) so I can use level 5 or 6 headings for a particular UI
> purpose without them showing up in the TOC.
>
> According to a response on
> 
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Template_talk:TOClimit#What_am_I_doing_wrong.3F
>  the effect is actually relative (i.e., a level 6 header directly
> under a level 1 header counts as "2 deep" not 6) rather than absolute.
>  Wanting to see what's under the hood I downloaded 1.15.1 and started
> wandering around trying to figure out the magic words parsing and am
> immediately confused.
>
> I know PHP acceptably well but this particular set of stuff is not
> giving me a good place to start figuring out the TOC formatting.  I
> looked in ImagePage.php and at MediaWiki:Common.css and am not seeing
> where to start particularly - just grepping for "TOC" in * and
> following stuff down from there didn't help much so far.
>
> Where do I need to start looking to understand how the TOC is actually
> produced?
>
I remember that when I've been parsed the page, some javascript was 
insterted into it to generate the TOC.
Perhaps that code would help:
skins/common/prefs.js
// generate toc from prefs form, fold sections
// XXX: needs testing on IE/Mac and safari
// more comments to follow
function tabbedprefs() {
...


this is taken from 1.14.1

Dmitriy

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