Forum:Creating Infoboxes

I need help with creating Infoboxes. Can anyone help me please? Solar Dragon 11:22, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * w:c:templates:Template:Infobox. 12:11, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * ... is that how they're done? Huh. I just started with the mainpage code, separated the two columns, and made the character profile into a table on the right side. - Xelrog T. Apocalypse 13:12, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Still won't work for me and just comes up with it saying Template:infobox character even when I have customised it and everything. Can someone explain it to me step-by-step? Or, could someone make one for me on the EastEnders Wiki? Solar Dragon 13:33, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * What kind of infoboxes, specifically, are you looking for? It's a very variable term. If you're after the sort of profile or Table of Contents boxes provided in the above link, I'm afraid I can't help you... if you're looking for a Navbox template that you can place at the bottom of every article related to a certain topic or series, I might have just what you're after. - Xelrog T. Apocalypse 14:56, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I mean the profile. Thansk Ose for starting it up but I don't know hot to add Parameters. I have tried but it failed. Solar Dragon 15:06, 26 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Could you link to the template you are working on?
 * I will give a quick tutorial here. To add a parameter to an article, add some wikicode like  or  . In these examples you would pass the parameter like this:   or  . If you forgot to use the   parameter in the first example, the default param1 needed for name would be inserted instead of "Joe" or whatever might normally be passed. So you can set a default bu putting a   (vertical bar) and then what you want the default value to be, if no data is passed to the parameter. Does this make sense? --  Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 11:06 AM PST 27 Apr 2009


 * No not really. Here is the link: Character Infobox. Solar Dragon 20:09, 27 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Looks good for me. If you want to make a parameter "disappear" then add a pipe with no text - e.g. if you don't want to appear in the page if you don't pass an Image parameter then put  . Are there any more problems? -- ko イsuru  ( talk ) 17:04, 28 April 2009 (UTC)


 * OK, got it mostly set up but can't get parameters to disappear. I tried what you said but it didn't work. I tried the pipe. The link is here: Character Infobox if anyone can help me out. Solar Dragon 20:09, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I corrected Ose's bug on the | template, I have also did a change on the template so you can see what you have to change. now Table pipes "|" will require to be change for the template call " | " from the row to the cells you want to disappear now at the start you will have to add " ". BTW all this with out the quotes that i use here. You can in the page my history change on how i did it so you have to follow the same on the other variables --
 * That's why I had a problem starting the template. I originally intended to make the image parameter optional, but the template kept breaking. I didn't think | would be coded incorrectly. Jay32183 02:54, 8 May 2009 (UTC)