Help:Wiki University Wikitext--Infobox - Placing

How to place an infobox

 * Since they are a template, they are placed like templates, that is, with double opening and closing curly brackets like so:


 * What makes an infobox so useful is the ability to add or edit information to them. Here is where you add the parameters where the infomation you want to display:
 * NOTICE each parameter is now substituted with a : | parameter=
 * It is after the = sign that you add your information. Here is an example for our fictishes organization:

 Exercises

Use this coding for this exercise: Lets make this into a infobox: Check your answers >
 * 1) Put a border around the infobox, limit the width to 190 pixels and make it so that will always be on the right side of the page.
 * 2) Put 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.

 Quick Quiz
 * Parameters have two opening and closing curly brackets surrounding them.
 * A. True
 * B. False


 * Infoboxes usually are located at the top of the page on the right side.
 * A. True
 * B. False

Check your answers >
 * Infoboxes are saved just like other templates but it is good practice to included the word "infobox" in its title.