Template:TOC

This template is for a table of contents for long explanations.

Exceptions

On the following three pages, this template deliberately outputs nothing, even when transcluded there indirectly (for example, as part of an explanation pulled in by Template:Nominate):

• explain xkcd:Explanation Improvement Project
• explain xkcd:Explanation Improvement Project/Successful nominations
• explain xkcd:Explanation Improvement Project/Unsuccessful nominations

This is because is a page-level magic word: once it's emitted anywhere in a page's rendered output, even from deep inside a transcluded template, it places a table of contents at that point on the page it's ultimately displayed on. Since these three pages each transclude many explanations via {{Nominate}}, an explanation that happens to use {{TOC}} would otherwise inject a floating table of contents into the nominations list, which isn't wanted there. The check is done with Template:TOC, so it correctly suppresses the output regardless of how many templates the transclusion passes through.