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	<includeonly><div style="clear:left; margin-bottom:0.5em; float:{{{side\|left}}}; padding:0.5em 1.4em 0.8em 0; background:none; width:{{{width~~\|{{{1~~\|auto~~}}}~~}}};" class="{{#if:{{{nonum\|}}}\|nonumtoc}} {{#if:{{{limit\|}}}\|toclimit-{{{limit}}}}}">__TOC__</div></includeonly><noinclude>Especially for articles which do not need a [[wp:WP:LEDE\|lede]], a long table of contents (TOC) can be visually unsettling – "Hey, where's the article? There's just this long box!" Use this template to make the TOC a floating table, so that the article text wraps around it. Now, sometimes a long TOC is the best approach, as in [[Quotes/Speech]] where we want the reader to be able to choose from the full directory of conversations in the game without any distracting text to the right. But for a more normal article like [[Daodan DLL]] it would look bad if the article didn't start until after the lengthy TOC.		<includeonly><div style="clear:left; margin-bottom:0.5em; float:{{{side\|left}}}; padding:0.5em 1.4em 0.8em 0; background:none; width:{{{width\|auto}}};" class="{{#if:{{{nonum\|}}}\|nonumtoc}} {{#if:{{{limit\|}}}\|toclimit-{{{limit}}}}}">__TOC__</div></includeonly><noinclude>Especially for articles which do not need a [[wp:WP:LEDE\|lede]], a long table of contents (TOC) can be visually unsettling – "Hey, where's the article? There's just this long box!" Use this template to make the TOC a floating table, so that the article text wraps around it. Now, sometimes a long TOC is the best approach, as in [[Quotes/Speech]] where we want the reader to be able to choose from the full directory of conversations in the game without any distracting text to the right. But for a more normal article like [[Daodan DLL]] it would look bad if the article didn't start until after the lengthy TOC.

	See the [[Template:TOClimit\|TOClimit]] template if you just want to omit lower-level section headers from the TOC, but note that this TOCfloat template does perform the same function if you use the "limit" parameter. See the [[Template:TOCnonum\|TOCnonum]] template if you just want to omit automatic numbering from the TOC, but note that TOCfloat also offers the "nonum" parameter for this purpose.		See the [[Template:TOClimit\|TOClimit]] template if you just want to omit lower-level section headers from the TOC, but note that this TOCfloat template does perform the same function if you use the "limit" parameter. See the [[Template:TOCnonum\|TOCnonum]] template if you just want to omit automatic numbering from the TOC, but note that TOCfloat also offers the "nonum" parameter for this purpose.