Help talk:Infoboxes

Ugly and inadequate documentation
The concept for info box tags seems like a start, but boy are they ugly. There definitely needs to be much more styling flexibility. Also, the documentation for these tags is woefully, horribly inadequate. There is no way I'm going to dredge through comment replies to a blog post to figure out how this works. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 21 Jul 2015 6:57 PM Pacific


 * In what way are they ugly? What kind of things do you think are missing from the documentation? This is not exactly a short help page :) What kind of styling flexibility is missing? You can set a custom class on infoboxes (and even a custom class based on a variable), which should allow a fair amount of styling targeting - described further in the 'Custom theming' section. 16:22, July 22, 2015 (UTC)
 * Contributors aren't used to adding complicated tags to a document, especially some that depend on each other and have a clear hierarchy. The biggest limitation of this help page is that it just jumps into talking about tags,css and xml and so forth assuming that a wikian would actually know what it all means. There isn't any clear example about how exactly the styles are applied to css page to make the potbox change appearance.


 * Although the portboxbuilder will likely change impressions once it is added. Advanced users will still want to have an idea about how it all works.


 * As far as the ugliness is concerned, as I noted in the potbox discussion thread, the problem is that the default theme is just too bland. A person with an "amazing" styling on an original infobox will simply be disappointed by an infobox that just looks plain, especially if they don't understand css well enough. That's why I suggested that the default one should look a bit better so users aren't immediately disappointed, or at least it should be easy to change to another "cute" one without fighting with css and stylesheets and stuff.


 * The ugly response that Wikia Staff are getting is just a result of user ignorance (relating to css styling).
 * Dessamator (talk) 19:28, July 23, 2015 (UTC)

Collapsibility
Can we add a basic collapsibility function with CSS class mw-collapsible? FishTank (wall/email) 03:47, July 30, 2015 (UTC)


 * I second this motion.  Would love to make certain groups collapsible. 'ᴥ' Zergrinch 02:17, September 2, 2015 (UTC)

Multiple classes?
Is it possible to have two or more classes on the infobox? Ex:  ...

I would like to have a master theme for all infoboxes that are then modified by a second theme. I realize I can modify the core infobox css but I don't want all the infoboxes to look like the "master" theme. So you would have vanilla, master and then secondary themes.

--FireDart (talk) 04:16, July 31, 2015 (UTC)

Spirits of nature (talk) 02:17, August 22, 2015 (UTC)How do you revert this back into the classic infobox. and i cant make any empty info invisible

This page has been made technically useful
I hope you weren't thinking of copying this page over the previous one, because it seemed like a really poor fork of Help:Infoboxes with minimal information. I have not touched the coding parts but I have added a lot of useful information for the coding-inclined users who actually maintain these templates and want to make sure they still work; but have no idea how this relates to the current state of affairs. That is now what the current intro describes. Apologies in advance if it inconveniences you (not really) – but it seems like the decision to spread this around the community has not been prepared for very well. Techhead7890 Talk Contribs 06:28, September 2, 2015 (UTC)