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<nowiki>{{TOCleft}}</nowiki> forces the auto-generated Table of Contents for an article to appear in a table that is floated to the left side of the page (as seen left), in order to improve article layout.
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== Usage ==

Insert <code><nowiki>{{TOCleft}}</nowiki></code> at the point in the article where you want the top of the Table of Contents box to appear. Use with <nowiki>{{-}}</nowiki> or <nowiki>{{clear}}</nowiki> to prevent image collisions.

== Cautions ==

Do not use this template to just force word wrap around the TOC, as this is inappropriate method of achieving this.  Instead add a CSS class to your monobook.css file which will apply site wide.

Do not place this template so that the TOC aligns with a large image or infobox; this breaks the layout on narrow screens (even users with screens as wide as 1024px wide can have problems).
Also, a TOC that crosses a section division is probably a poor idea, if that can be avoided.

Unless the section in which the <nowiki>{{TOCleft}}</nowiki> is placed is long enough, the result may well be undesirable.  Note particularly that if the TOC is floated left of a bulleted list, the bullets will be hidden.