Forum:Stuck with messaging template coding

Hi there, our wiki is having an issue with a template;

I used a code from another wiki, this one, but what I wanted to do was make it so users can personalize their own, with colours & images. So I had this; meta template and this, test personalization code. However, I'm not sure why this isn't working?--Technobliterator 20:46, April 30, 2011 (UTC)


 * I would suggest giving all of the colors default values. Since  uses curly brackets, CSS will get confused and may or may not throw a fatal error, which would cause your template to not show up.


 * We had used default values originally yeah. I'll put them back up again.--Technobliterator 21:01, April 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * I've used defaults, the coding still doesn't work :/ I'm not sure what else I'm doing wrong. I doubt the J&D wiki uses any different .css or .js that sporewiki doesnt have.--Technobliterator 21:11, April 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah - it won't show anything on Template:Msg, because is not in your switch statement. If you use the template somewhere and put something in for type, it correctly displays.
 * All right, thank you! Since we want it to switch between, I'll just use a doc.--Technobliterator 21:49, April 30, 2011 (UTC)