Help:Wiki University Wikitext--Infobox - Creating

What are infoboxes
Infoboxes are nothing more than templates. However, they are a special use templates. We use them to display information usually about organizations and administrative divisions like US counties, but in a table form. They allow quick reference to people and locations. Oregon County, Missouri Genealogy. Here is an example of an organization: Featherstone_Society
 * We usually place them near the top of the page on the right side. Here is an example of one:

Advantages of infoboxes

 * What makes infoboxes useful is the ability to add or change information in them without having to go the template itself to edit the template.
 * Just as templates can be changed if you use the "subst:" procedure, infoboxes are set up that way automatically.

Let's create a infobox for an organization
Here is the coding
 * NOTICE along with colspan in the first two rows we have placed borders around all the cells and have centered the name of the organization and the image.
 * Nothing really unusual in the coding so far. But we are going to introduce a new concept to you called parameters
 * Parameters a formed by three opening and closing curly brackets like so:

Infobox parameters
What we going to do is put three opening and closing curly brackets around the items which are where the names, etc go in our infobox which is in this case president, address, etc like so:
 * NOTICE all you have to do to turn an item into a "parameter" is surround it with three curly brackets.

Now save the template and use the word "infobox" somewhere in the title like so:

So that is all there is to create a infobox. The next chapter will tell you how to embed the infobox and where the parameters come into play.

 Exercises Use this coding for a table
 * Merge the cells with Barley and Buckwheat in them.
 * Merge the cells with Peas, Carrots and Corn in them.

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 Quick Quiz
 * If you are going to merge three cells in a column, you must delete the number of cells in the column under the cell to equal the number call for in the rowspan code.
 * A. True
 * B. False


 * If you want to merge two cells that are under each other in a column, you delete the cell next it in the row.
 * A. True
 * B. False

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