<span class="mw-page-title-namespace">Template</span><span class="mw-page-title-separator">:</span><span class="mw-page-title-main">Nowline</span>
Fabrice P. Lauss𝕪s onsensus Web
past ↑↓ future

The line between what has already happened and what has not, for a list kept in chronological order — News above all.

You are not meant to place this by hand. Module:Nowline does it, on every render:

{{#invoke:Nowline|split|today={{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY2}}|1=
* {{thisday|14|August|2026}}: something that happened.
* {{thesedays|16|18|October|2026}}: something that will.
}}
Called as Draws
{{nowline}} the quiet divider: past ↑ — hairline — ↓ future
{{nowline|top}} the hot rule that opens what is happening today
{{nowline|bottom}} the hot rule that closes it
{{nowline|now}} 🔥 in the margin, and Happening now!

The module picks between them: nothing on today gives one quiet rule between the last item past and the first to come; an item whose dates straddle today is bracketed by the hot pair instead, with the 🔥 beside it. Several at once are bracketed together.

Calling it by hand still works and simply draws what you asked for, wherever you put it.