Help:Wiki University Wikitext--Navboxes

What is a navbox

 * They are very much like sidebars, only they are usually at the bottom of a page. Here is an example from the Adair County, Missouri Genealogy page.
 * You will notice on this county page that a sidebar is not used. The topic information is in the Navbox instead.  This is ok, if you think it is a better option than a sidebar.
 * Basically a navbox is for links that maybe not be of immediate interest like we see on a sidebar, but give options for other places to look.

Lets examine the above navbox

 * First section - items you would might find in a sidebar.
 * Second section - internal links to pages for other counties in the state.
 * Third sections - internal links to pages of extinct county pages.
 * Fourth section - internal links to pages outlining what is available in the major repositories in the state.
 * Fifth section - internal links to pages discussing migration routes going through the state.

How to create a navbox

 * The navbox above is a table.
 * First row is the title of the navbox. It is centered and spans the two columns that follow.
 * First column is the title of the items in the adjacent cells.
 * Second column is the links or whatever material is to be displayed.
 * There are background colors in the cells.

Let make one like the one above but use less material:

Here is the coding: All this wikitext and inline styling should be familiar to you except for some new templates we have introduced

Some new templates

 * . This is a template that automatically takes the title of the article, whatever it is, and puts it where this template is placed.  Here it is taking the name of this chapter and putting it in the first row of the navbox.  Notice that the letters are all capitalized and this template will not work unless they are.
 * · . This is a template that puts the little dot between the items in this cell.  It is a built in template like the PAGENAME template.
 * | . This is a template that is often used in place of a pipe.  It is not use in our made up navbox, but you may see it in existing ones.  Sometimes the pipe does not work properly, for whatever reason, so this template was created by the people who invented wikitext to compensate for this problem with the pipe.

Placing the navbox

 * It is place just like any other template.
 * If there are any parameters, they need to be included in the coding for the template.

Try these out
 Exercises Here is an existing infobox. Copy and paste this coding in your sandbox and fill out the information for the county you were born in: Check your answers
 * This an existing infobox for US Counties. You will not need the brackets of word File to place the required images.

 Quick Quiz
 * Once the information after the equal signs is entered and saved, there is no changing the parameters.
 * A. True
 * B. False


 * Infoboxes can only be used on county pages.
 * A. True
 * B. False


 * Infoboxes are limited just to genealogical organizations.
 * A. True
 * B. False

Check your answers