User:ChaoticShadow/Creating Portable Infoboxes

Work in Progress

Hello! This blog, as its title suggests is about building portable infoboxes.

Introduction
What are portable infoboxes? In short they are Wikia's self proclaimed evolution of the 'classic infobox' (What are those? See here.) PI (portable infoboxes, and henceforth I shall call them this now) is in an XML format, similar to HTML, and if you are familiar with HTML, you should know for each tag opened, they must also be closed with their respective tag, that is, if the tag isn't self-closing. So for example,  must be closed with , while   is self-closing, so it doesn't need another tag after it.

Similar to, infoboxes must start and end with the   tags. Various tags do inside this "umbrella" tag which creates how an infobox looks.

Basic Syntax & Elements
I'm going to go ahead and list every tag that will be used in a PI (self closing tags will be listed with a "/"):

I will now breakdown every tag, as well as any changes you can do.

With this tag, the most you can do is either  or. The difference? If the layout is stacked, that means that the label for a certain "cell" is directly above it, rather than to the left of it, like what most infoboxes have.

Relevant links

 * Help:Infoboxes