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Switch types
  • Analogue switch
  • Banyan switch
  • Battery isolator
  • Cam switch
  • Centrifugal switch
  • Company switch
  • Contact protection
  • Crossbar switch
  • Crossover switch
  • Cryotron
  • DIP switch
  • Dry contact
  • Electric switchboard
  • Float switch
  • Humidistat
  • Infinite switch
  • Inertial switch
  • Kill switch
  • Key switch
  • Knife switch
  • Limit switch
  • Latching switch
  • Light switch
  • Lightning switch
  • Magnetic proximity fuze
  • Magnetic starter
  • Magnetic switch
  • Mercury switch
  • Miniature snap-action switch
  • Optical switch
  • Photoswitch
  • Piezo switch
  • Placebo button
  • Pressure switch
  • Pull switch
  • Push switch
  • Push-button
  • Railroad switch
  • Reed switch
  • Rotary switch
  • Sail switch
  • Sea switch
  • Sense switch
  • Silicone rubber keypad
  • Softswitch
  • Spark gap
  • Staircase timer
  • Stepping switch
  • Strowger switch
  • Thermostat
  • Time switch
  • Touch switch
  • Transfer switch
  • Vacuum switch
  • Vandal-resistant switch
  • Wireless light switch
  • Zero speed switch
Switches
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This template does not display in the mobile view of Wikipedia; it is desktop only. See Template:Navbox visibility for a brief explanation.

This is a navigational template created using {{navbox}}. It can be transcluded on pages by placing {{Switches}} below the standard article appendices and above categories.

Initial visibility

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This template's initial visibility currently defaults to autocollapse, meaning that if there is another collapsible item on the page (a navbox, sidebar, or table with the collapsible attribute), it is hidden apart from its title bar; if not, it is fully visible.

To change this template's initial visibility, the |state= parameter may be used:

  • {{Switches|state=collapsed}} will show the template collapsed, i.e. hidden apart from its title bar.
  • {{Switches|state=expanded}} will show the template expanded, i.e. fully visible.

Templates using the classes class=navbox ({{navbox}}) or class=nomobile ({{sidebar}}) are not displayed in article space on the mobile web site of English Wikipedia. Mobile page views accounted for 60% to 70% of all page views from 2020 through 2025. Briefly, these templates are not included in articles because 1) they are not well designed for mobile, and 2) they significantly increase page sizes—bad for mobile downloads—in a way that is not useful for the mobile use case. You can review/watch phab:T124168 for further discussion.

TemplateData

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A navigational box that can be placed at the bottom of articles.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Statestate

The initial visibility of the navbox

Suggested values
collapsed expanded autocollapse
Stringsuggested

Template transclusions

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Transclusion maintenance
Check completeness of transclusions
The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Navbox documentation. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
Subpages of this template.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Switches&oldid=1334115387"
Last edited on 21 January 2026, at 16:58

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