Editing Template:Navbox/doc (section)

=== Multiple show/hides in a single container ===
{{main|Template:Navbox with collapsible groups}}
The example below is generated using a regular navbox for the main container, then its list1, list2, and list3 parameters each contain another navbox, with <code>border = child</code> set.  Note that each of the child navboxes has its own VDE navbar; these could be hidden using <code>navbar = plain</code> for each of them, or by just leaving out the ''name'' parameter (child navboxes do not require the name parameter to be set, unlike regular navboxes).

{{Navbox
|name = Navbox/doc
|title = [[Image:Blason France moderne.svg|x17px|link=|alt=]] [[Image:Flag of France.svg|x17px|link=|alt=]] [[French colonial empires|Former French overseas empire]]
|state = uncollapsed
|list1 = {{Navbox|child
 |name       = Former French colonies in Africa and the Indian Ocean
 |title      = [[French colonial empires|Former French colonies]] in [[Africa]] and the [[Indian Ocean]]
 |groupstyle = background:lavender;

 |group1 = [[Mahgreb]]
 |list1  = [[French rule in Algeria|Algeria]]{{·}} [[French Morocco|Morocco]]&nbsp;<small>([[Arguin|Arguin Island]])</small>{{·}} [[History of Tunisia|Tunisia]]

 |group2 = [[French West Africa]]
 |list2  = [[History of Côte d'Ivoire#French Period|Côte d'Ivoire]]{{·}} [[French Dahomey|Dahomey]]{{·}} [[French Sudan]]{{·}} [[French Guinea|Guinea]]{{·}} [[History of Mauritania#French colonization and post-colonial history|Mauritania]]{{·}} [[History of Niger#Colonization|Niger]]{{·}} [[History of Senegal|Senegal]]{{·}} [[French Upper Volta|Upper Volta]]

 |group3 = &nbsp;
 |list3  = [[French Togoland]]{{·}} [[James Island (The Gambia)|James Island]]

 |group4 = [[French Equatorial Africa]]
 |list4  = [[Colonial Chad|Chad]]{{·}} [[History of Gabon|Gabon]]{{·}} [[History of the Republic of the Congo|Middle Congo]]{{·}} [[Oubangui-Chari]]

 |group5 = [[Comoros]]
 |list5  = [[Anjouan]]{{·}} [[Grande Comore]]{{·}} [[Mohéli]]

 |group6 = &nbsp;
 |list6  = [[History of Djibouti#French Interest|French Somaliland (Djibouti)]]{{·}} [[History of Madagascar#French control|Madagascar]]{{·}} [[Mauritius|Ile de France]]{{·}} [[Seychelles]]
}}

|list2 = {{Navbox|child
 |name       = Former French colonies in the Americas
 |titlestyle = 
 |title      = [[French colonial empires|Former French colonies]] in the [[Americas]]
 |groupstyle = 
 |list1 = [[New France]]{{spaces|2}}<small>([[Acadia]]&nbsp;• [[Louisiana (New France)|Louisiana]]&nbsp;• [[Canada, New France|Canada]]&nbsp;• [[Newfoundland (island)|Terre&nbsp;Neuve]]) 1655 – 1763 </small>

 |list2 = [[Inini]]{{·}} [[Berbice]]{{·}} [[Saint-Domingue]]&nbsp;<small>([[Haiti]])</small>{{·}} [[Tobago]]{{·}} [[History of the British Virgin Islands|Virgin&nbsp;Islands]]{{·}} {{nowrap|[[France Antarctique]]}}{{·}} {{nowrap|[[France Équinoxiale]]}}

 |belowstyle = 
 |below      = [[French West India Company]]
}}

|list3 = {{Navbox|child
 |name       = Former French colonies in Asia and Oceania
 |title      = [[French colonial empires|Former French colonies]] in [[Asia]] and [[Oceania]]
 |groupstyle = 

 |group1 = [[French India]]
 |list1  = [[Chandernagor]]{{·}} [[Coromandel Coast]]{{·}} [[History of Chennai|Madras]]{{·}} [[Malabar]]{{·}} [[Mahé, India|Mahé]]{{·}} [[History of Puducherry|Pondichéry]]{{·}} [[Karaikal]]{{·}} [[Yanam (India)|Yanaon]]

 |group2 = [[French Indochina]]
 |list2  = [[Colonial Cambodia|Cambodia]]{{·}} [[History of Laos to 1945#French Laos|Laos]]{{·}} [[French Indochina|Vietnam]]&nbsp;<small>([[Annam (French colony)|Annam]]&nbsp;• [[Cochinchina]]&nbsp;• [[Tonkin]])</small>

 |group3 = Other Asian
 |list3  = [[Alawite State|Alaouites]]{{·}} [[Republic of Hatay|Alexandretta-Hatay]]{{·}} [[Sri Lanka|Ceylon]]{{·}} [[Kwangchowan]]

 |group4 = [[Oceania]]
 |list4  = [[New Hebrides]] [[History of Vanuatu|(Vanuatu)]]

 |belowstyle = 
 |below      = [[French East India Company]]
}}
}}