Wikipedia: Incumbent series

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Biographies of incumbents (monarchs, popes, presidents, prime ministers) are often linked together by boxes, including the predecessor and successor. For other series of articles, see Wikipedia:Article series.

As sample from Moritz Leuenberger, as discussed on Talk:List of members of the Swiss Federal Council:

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{| border="1" align="center" style="border-collapse:collapse"
| width="30%" align="center"| '''Preceded by''':<br>[[Otto Stich]] 
| width="40%" bgcolor="#aaaaaa" align="center"| [[Member of the Swiss Federal Council]]<br>1995-
| width="30%" align="center"| '''Succeeded by''':<br>''n.a. (still in office)''
|}

This structure can also work for any long chain of items:

Source:

{| border="1" align="center" style="border-collapse:collapse"
| width="30%" align="center"|[[Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution|20th Amendment]]
| width="40%" bgcolor="#aaaaaa" align="center"|'''Amendments'''<br>[[United States Constitution]]
| width="30%" align="center"|[[Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution|22nd Amendment]]
|}