Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wikia/@comment-8912691-20140610174135/@comment-26975268-20140617223029

I would give the elements css classes and ids; gotta admit, giving the styles manually at every instance is not only messy but a bad idea. Then, at MediaWiki:Common.css at your wiki, you can specify, say, using the exact design given above:

.infobox { width: 300px border: 1px solid blue; float: right; margin: 1em; } .infobox th.info-head { background-color: darkblue; color: white; } .infobox td.info-left { background-color: blue; border-top: 1px dotted blue; color: white; } .infobox td.info-right { border-top: 1px dotted blue; }

I'm not saying you'd necessarily want that design, though. Play around the colouring, sizing, and other css things until it really works for the overall design of your wiki. w3schools.com has a complete list of properties you can use to customise the infobox design to get it to look how you want it in the left rail, and if you click on the links complete explanations and examples. Or, more locally, you can check out w:c:htmlcss.