Help:Sidebar

What is a sidebar
Sidebar is a term that refers to various forms of information that is displayed it a box to the side of an article. You can display text, images, widgets, etc.

What is the purpose of sidebars?
The purpose of the sidebars is to isolate the material in it from any changes in the main article that might affect the location or arrangement of the material in the sidebar.

What are the advantages of sidebars
It also has the advantage of being updatable without having to go the article where the sidebar appears. You simply go to the sidebar article and made whatever changes you want. Then when someone goes to the page where the sidebar is located they will see the updated material. And this material will appear on all articles where the sidebar is imbedded.

The sidebar can be locked to prevent any editing of the material in it.

How to create a sidebar
To edit a sidebar, you treat it just like a regular article. Click on the Edit This Page button and make whatever changes you want.

How to embed a sidebar
Type the following:. Then place the sidebar coding where you want it to appear. It can be placed anywhere on the page. It will begin where you place it. So if you put it at the top, it will appear at the top. If you place it half way down the page, it appear there.

How to edit a sidebar
This thing to pay attention to is the width of the sidebar. If you have a width set on the material in the article, you may force it or the material on the right side of the article to be pushed down the page. So pay attention to the width of your sidebar and the width of the material in the article itself. 25% width seems to be a good width. You can control the width with “div” tags such as: text Click here to see the article for the Template:Example-sidebar on this page