User:Stais/Sandbox/Infobox, Image Maps

Info box - Creating, Placing; Image Maps

Lesson 14: Infobox - Creating

To save the infobox template, use the word "infobox" somewhere in the title like so:

template:Name of Society Infobox

CAUTION: When doing your infobox exercise, be sure to adhere to the restrictions for saving a template when saving your work. See sample below and refer to Ch 13-Templates.

template:your username/sandbox/Name of Society Infobox

Exercises:

Lets make this into a infobox:


 * 1) Add a border around the infobox, limit the width to 240 pixels and place it on the right side of the page.
 * 2) Add borders around each of the cells.
 * 3) Have the cells containing the words organization and image span both columns.
 * 4) Center the name of the organization and the image in their cells.
 * 5) Make the items in the right hand cells into parameters.
 * 6) Rename the parameters to make them more understandable.

Use this coding for the exercise:

Lesson 15: Infobox - Placing

How to place or embed an infobox

Given that infoboxes are templates, they are placed or embedded like templates with double opening and closing curly brackets.

The big difference is when you embed the infobox template you must add the parameter coding as shown below:

The ability to make changes or add to other pages with different information makes infoboxes very useful tools.

Be creative when creating infoboxes. Try different background colors, different kinds of borders, etc.

Due to templates, I did not do much with this lesson. Be sure to read the lesson for information.

Lesson 16: Image Maps

How to generate wikitext code