How to Create an Infobox

What are Infoboxes
Infoboxes are nothing more than a table saved as a template. However there is one minor difference: the table has a classification in its title, like so in Wikitext and HTML:
 * {| class=infobox .............. |} or in HTML

Purpose of Infoboxes
Infoboxes are usually in the upper right hand corner of an article to be seen right away after page has loaded. Its main purpose is to give details so you don't have try to locate them in the article. For an organization, it might have the leadership, times and places of meetings, etc.

How to create an Infobox
Again an infobox is a table. If you know how to create tables in Wikitext or HTML, it is not difficult. If you do not know Wikitext or HTLM you will need someone who does to help you. If you would like to learn these two programs, see Wikitext or HTML Programming. Neither of these programming languages are difficult to learn and you can then impress your friends and children.

Step One Create the table
We will begin by creating a simple table in both Wikitext and HTML which will be displayed side by side so can see the difference. It is recommended that you create infobox table in HTML as it is easier to do.

So let us create a infobox for an organization. We will do it both in Wikitext and HTML. Next we want to give the infobox some style considerations such as width, borders, padding, font size, and maybe background color: