Help:Userbox

A userbox (commonly abbreviated as UBX) is a small colored box (see examples to the right) designed to appear only on a contributor's User page as a communicative notice about the user, in order to directly (or even indirectly) help users collaborate more effectively on articles.

Using existing userboxes
A gallery of existing userboxes can be found in the FamilySearch Wiki:Userboxes/Gallery. To add this userbox, enter on your user page.

The template can be placed after the plain userbox if text is added on a new line immediately after it.

If you have a number of userboxes, you can put userboxtop before and userboxbottom after the list to order them together on your user page.

You will generally not add a userbox to another's user page, except in the case of recognition userboxes.

Creating a new userbox
The basic template used in creating new userboxes is Userbox. Basic examples are included in the template documentation. Alternatively a request for a new userbox can be added to the FamilySearch Wiki:Userboxes talk page.

Adding User Boxes
How to you build a list of userboxes on your User Page?

Start by adding this code to your userpage where you want to add your userboxes:

( Note: align right, left or center.)

Next add the template code for the user box(es) that relate to your activities, skills and affiliations.

Some examples are:        etc. (Note the separation of each by a space).

End the userbox array with this code:

The userboxes will now show on your user page and look like those to the right.

If your list of user boxes is long, you may want to include collapsible sections.

The code to add a collapsible section is easy to add with some simple code. The collapsible section for a Communities section looks like this: (See it in action to the right.)

(Note: The section description "Communities" and the link to the wiki article named "FamilySearch_Communities")

The next item to add is the collapsible box template which starts with:

An example of code for a collapsible FamilySearch Communities userbox section looks like this:

You can add as many or few to the list as you want. Just copy the code above and modify it to fit your desire.

Each new item has to start with a pipe | .... then a number in consecutive order followed by the equals sign and then the userbox code.

|1=

Be sure to close the section with two curly brackets. }}

You can have many different sections in your userbox frame. Just choose the title for each section, add the appropriate opening statement and link and then add the code for the userbox templates that you want in that section. Close the userbox with the code shown in the above examples.

Here are two userpages that demonstrate collapsible userboxes:


 * Cottrells
 * Ldrew

The list of available userboxes is found at: 


 * Userboxes