Forum:This infobox isn't working...

Whenever I try to add an infobox to an article on the Archie Comics Wiki, the normal infobox template does not come up. Rather, the template requests the infobox's "child", "bodyclass", "bodystyle", etc. I have no idea what to write in these boxes and am getting extremely irritated as none of Wikia's support articles deal with this problem. Could someone help me out?


 * It looks like you're using rich text mode according to the screenshot. Try using source mode instead, and insert stuff like this into wherever you want the infobox:


 * That should make more sense to you, and I'm used to doing things like that. If it's still not working, I'm sorry, but I will not be able to offer further help on the situation, and so you may have to wait for somebody else to answer if that is the case. EpicWikipedian 17:01, April 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd like to offer some advice, but your screencap is tiny. Can you give us a bigger one?


 * Sure, I'll upload one right now.
 * @Epic: I've tried that and it doesn't seem to work. I'm still not sure why. ~Smoketail~ 18:12, April 4, 2012 (UTC)


 * [[File:Screen_shot_2012-04-04_at_11.13.33_AM.png|thumb|400px|In this one I cropped it so that only the web browser is showing, and blew it up, so it should be better.

This is a thumbnail, click on it to see full size.]]


 * Basically your adding the std infobox from which others are built when yo click on the infobox button/Icon. As your working with the visual editor which few users on central use (as most use source mode which is a lot better for things like templates - we just paste them in) so it stumped me for a bit as to what that form was till i tried to adda template toa page using visual mode. But using that method it looks like you need to select the correct infobox and then it will give you the correct list of input parrameters to put the info into on the popup form. That popup has a button to allow you to select another template instead of that std base infobox one it defaults to.


 * - 88.104.134.15 19:19, April 4, 2012 (UTC)


 * A few things:
 * You're probably using the wrong template. By default Template:Infobox on most wikis is not for direct use, but used by other templates like Template:Infobox character. You should try using Template:Infobox character instead.
 * If you tell us what you want your infobox template to do, we can help you make a new, easier to use one here. Maybe something like Template:Infobox comic character or Template:Infobox comic issue.
 * Learning wikitext (also known as "wikicode") and using the Source mode of the editor is really the ay to go unless you only want to do the very simplest editing. The Visual editor seems easy to use, but it doesn't do a good job with the more complicated things like complex formatting, templates, and tables.
 * -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 4 Apr 2012 3:01 PM Pacific