Template:Mbox/doc

This page contains usage information for Template:Mbox.

This template depends on CSS

MediaWiki:Common.css

Meta-template for building message boxes (used for article management templates, for example).

Usage

{{Mbox
|color   =gray
|image   =Mbox_default.png
|header  =Example header
|content =Example text
}}

Parameters

content

Text content of the box.

header

Bold text to be displayed as the box header.

(default: "middle")

align

Enables the header, content and note to be aligned vertically as a group. Options are those listed for CSS vertical-align

(default: "gray")

color

Color of left border. Accepts standard HTML color names or RGB hex triplets. For the wiki's color conventions see "Colors" below.

(default: "Mbox default.png")

image

Image to be displayed in the box.

note

Small text to be displayed below content.

(default: "60x55px")

px

Size of image.

style

Additional CSS to be applied to the box. To ensure a standardized and professional look across all {{mbox}}-based templates, this should only be used very sparingly.

Colors

Color	Should be used for	Examples
red	serious issues	{{Delete}}
orange	content issues	{{Cleanup}}, {{Missing data}}, {{Outdated}}, {{Review}}, {{Wikify}}, {{Upcoming}}
blue	template issues	{{Infobox incomplete}}, {{Infobox needed}}, {{Missing data}}, {{Navbox needed}}
purple	organization issues	{{Merge}}, {{Move}}, {{Split}}
yellow	file issues	{{Badimage}}, {{Image needed}}, {{Unused file}}, {{Audio needed}}
green	stub color	{{Stub}}, {{Section}}
gray	default color

Examples

Example 1

{{Mbox
|color   =black
|header  =Example notice
|content =Example notices serve example purposes.
}}

results in:

Example notice

Example notices serve example purposes.

Example 2

{{Mbox
|color   =#F1B82F
|image   =Mbox delete.png
|header  =Example notice
|content =Example notices serve example purposes.
|note    =Example notices are not really useful.
}}

results in:

Example notice

Example notices serve example purposes.

Example notices are not really useful.