Mbox

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Meta-template for building message boxes.

There are several sub-templates available for specific uses:

• {{Mbox management}} for building page management templates
• {{Mbox mediawiki}} for building interface messages ("MediaWiki:" namespace)
• {{Mbox project}} for building project tags
• {{Mbox talk}} for building talk page notices

Usage

{{Mbox
|header        =Example header
|content       =Example text
|image         =Mbox default.png
|border        =none
}}

Parameters

Optional

(default: "gray")

border

Color of left border. Accepts standard HTML color names or RGB hex triplets. If set to "none", no colored border is displayed.

Optional

bg

Color of box background. Accepts standard HTML color names or RGB hex triplets.

Required

content

Text content of the box, displayed below header and above footer.

Optional

cssclass

Specifies additional CSS classes for the box.

Optional

footer

Text in small font to be displayed below content.

Optional

header

Main title/"headline" of the message box, displayed above content.

Optional

(default: "Mbox default.png")

image

File name of an image (without "File:") which should be displayed on the left side of the box.

Optional

(default: "35x30px")

image size

Size of image in pixels.

Style parameters

All style options should be used sparingly as they can lead to visual inconsistencies. Some examples of useful styles:

• Changing background color: background-color: #123456; (accepts HTML color names or RGB hex triplets)
• Changing (horizontal) text-alignment: text-align: center; (accepts "center", "justify", "left", "right")
• Changing vertical text-alignment: vertical-align: middle; (accepts "bottom", "middle", "top")

Optional

body style

Specifies CSS styles to apply to the area containing content, header and footer (i.e. everything but image).

Optional

content style

Specifies CSS styles to apply to the content area.

Optional

footer style

Specifies CSS styles to apply to the footer area.

Optional

header style

Specifies CSS styles to apply to the header area.

Optional

image style

Specifies CSS styles to apply to the image area.

Optional

style

Specifies CSS styles to apply to all areas.

Examples

No border, no image

{{Mbox
|header        =Example notice
|content       =Example notices serve example purposes.
|footer        =Example footer
|border        =none
}}

results in:

Example notice Example notices serve example purposes. Example footer

Border, image, background color

{{Mbox
|header        =Example notice
|content       =Example notices serve example purposes.
|footer        =Example footer
|border        =#ABA000
|bg            =#DDDDDD
|image         =Mbox default.png
}}

results in:

Example notice Example notices serve example purposes. Example footer

Documentation transcluded from Template:Mbox/doc.