== Charts examples ==Three examples of what is possible. For more extensive examples see* [[:en:Template:Timeline WW II - Pacific Theatre|WW II - Pacific Theatre]]* [[:en:Template:Timeline_History_of_Computing|History of Computing]]* [[:de:Vorlage:Zeitleiste_Tour_de_France_Sieger|Tour de France Sieger]]* [[:en:Template:Vocal and instrumental pitch ranges|Vocal and instrumental pitch ranges]] (a nice example of a diagram that is not a <timeline at all)* [[:en:Template:Complete_timeline_of_Macintosh models|Complete timeline of Macintosh models]]* [[:en:Template:Timeline_of_English_monarchs|English Monarchs]]># All measures are in pixels
<table><tr>ImageSize = width:160 height:550<td valignPlotArea =left:50 right:0 bottom:10 top:10AlignBars = justify DateFormat = yyyyPeriod = from:1919 till:1991TimeAxis = orientation:verticalScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1920 # there is no automatic collision detection,# so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar PlotData= bar:Leaders color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:S from:start till:1922 shift:($dx,15) text:Vladimir~Ilyich~[[Lenin]] from:1922 till:1953 shift:($dx,5) text:[[Stalin|Josef~Stalin]] from:1953 till:1964 shift:($dx,5) text:Nikita~[[Khrushchev]] from:1964 till:1982 shift:($dx,5) text:Leonid~[[Brezhnev]] from:1982 till:1984 shift:($dx,-12) text:Yuri~[[Andropov]] from:1984 till:1985 shift:($dx,4) text:Konstantin~[[Chernenko]] fontsize:XS from:1985 till:end shift:($dx,10) text:Mikhail~[[Gorbachev]] </timeline># All measures are in pixels
<timeline>
ImageSize = width:160 height:550
PlotArea = widthleft:50 heightright:530 left0 bottom:50 bottom10 top:10AlignBars = justify
DateFormat = yyyy
from:start till:1922 shift:($dx,15) text:Vladimir~Ilyich~[[Lenin]]
from:1922 till:1953 shift:($dx,5) text:[[Stalin|Josef ~Stalin]]
from:1953 till:1964 shift:($dx,5) text:Nikita~[[Khrushchev]]
from:1964 till:1982 shift:($dx,5) text:Leonid~[[Brezhnev]]
