Forum:How to I make userboxes??

Everyones making boxes that say this user is female and stuff like that and i donr know how?? can you helpme? - User:Nessanae


 * See w:c:help:Userboxes (although not very helpful) or w:c:templates:Template:Userbox (kind of complicated). -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 2:43 PM PST 15 Jul 2010


 * (edit conflict) As Fandyllc now says and i was going to say - see Help:Userboxes which has a link to a generic userbox template that can be copied to your wiki (but most wikis have the basic one as shown below. This can be used to create custom versions (you need to open the (userbox) template page in edit (source) mode to see the actual template code within the template & copy that to your wiki to create a template called  if the basic one is not present.

To create custom ones just create a template 'Userbox xyz' were xyz is the title for the box & tell the code in the standard one the message you require. "id=" is the text in the first part and "info=" is the message in the main body. (you can change the colour as well i think as well) Look at the ones used on your wiki to see how it was done if they are not grey like this one by opening them to edit and looking inside them if they are custom ones. which gives;

Note: - please do not post your messages within the tags,  as this creates a hidden comment which is not visible to viewers of the page (only editors) & causes you Signature not to be display & time stamped (when you use preview before saving you should see part of your message was missing) - BulldozerD11 21:51, July 15, 2010 (UTC)