Include

Include Documentation

The {{include}} embedding pulls another page, or a single section of it, into the current page. The examples below all include the sample page.

The whole page

{{include|src=/Examples/Include/Sample Page}}

Sample Page

This page has no purpose of its own. It exists so that Include can pull it in, whole or one section at a time.

Otters

Otters are semiaquatic mammals of the weasel family. They have dense fur, webbed feet and spend much of their time in rivers, lakes and coastal waters.

Sea Otters

Sea otters float on their backs and wrap themselves in kelp so they do not drift apart while they sleep.

Beavers

Beavers are large rodents that build dams and lodges, reshaping streams into ponds. They are not otters, but they share the water.

A single section

section is the heading anchor slug (lower case, spaces as dashes), matched independently of the heading level. children=true (the default) pulls in the subsections too, so this also brings along Sea Otters.

{{include|src=/Examples/Include/Sample Page|section=otters}}

Otters

Otters are semiaquatic mammals of the weasel family. They have dense fur, webbed feet and spend much of their time in rivers, lakes and coastal waters.

Sea Otters

Sea otters float on their backs and wrap themselves in kelp so they do not drift apart while they sleep.

A section, without its subsections or heading

children=false stops at the next subheading and heading=false drops the section's own heading line, so this includes only the paragraph directly under Otters.

{{include|src=/Examples/Include/Sample Page|section=otters|children=false|heading=false}}

Otters are semiaquatic mammals of the weasel family. They have dense fur, webbed feet and spend much of their time in rivers, lakes and coastal waters.

Things to watch out for

Use absolute paths inside included content. Relative links and attachments (![](image.png)) in the source resolve against the including page, not the source page, so they break. Write /Source/Page/image.png in anything meant to be included. That is why src above is written absolute as well, though relative src (resolved against this page) also works.
Headings from included content do not show up in this page's table of contents.
Do not combine a {{DataTable}} and an {{include}} on the same page; the page's own DataTable can be left uninitialised. Keep them on separate pages.
Includes nest at most 8 deep, and cycles (a page including itself, directly or through a chain) are detected and reported rather than expanded.

See the Include documentation for the full option list.