Forum:Infobox Automobile

Can someone help? I want my infobox to be like this. When something is not typed it will hide not show showing this:. ya know what I mean? --Knighrez(Talk) 07:11, June 11, 2010 (UTC)

You could replace things like to

But that will still leave a row in place if you are using a table. The preceeding use a parser function. And thoses uses the pipe caracther (|) to separate their parameters. So they're a bit incompatibles with the wiki table syntax.

So, if you would like to hide the full row of the table, you would need a template named "!" (or "I" on two wikis where i'm admin) that would only contain a pipe. That permit to replace every pipes of the table syntax with the template call and make it compatible with parsers functions. — TulipVorlax 09:28, June 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * This is a bit confusing. I can give temporary admin powers to do it on my wiki. --Knighrez(Talk) 11:39, June 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * He doesn't need to be an admin to edit a template... 11:45, June 11, 2010 (UTC)

(edit conflict)
 * It is helpfull if you do not lock pages that you would like help with. Wikia page protection policy is only to lock them if there is a vandalism problem or pages such as policy pages. Locking templates then asking for help is counter productive !! Editors then only need admin powers for the MediaWiki name space area such as editing the Common.CSS and JS files. Any user can create templates on a wiki.


 * Have a look at how the wikipedia template you quote works (is built) in edit mode and note also the sub templates it uses (listed at the bottom of the page) the key one is it is based on the core templates "Infobox" and "Infobox/row" but note the default wikia "Infobox" is different from the wikipedia one and are not directly interchangeable. Note: Wikipedia lock templates due to the volume of pages they are used on and the problems of minor changes by people who do not understand how they are constructed to work in many page variations 'fixing' on page and messing up many other, but you can copy the code and experiment with it on your wiki in a sandbox page. (if you use it credit its source in the edit summary, as it also helps others fix or adapt it later if they know were it came from by looking in the edit history)


 * Your template current Infobox Automobile on the Dodge page is quite smart looking but the coloured text is hard to read in places - BulldozerD11 11:50, June 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * PS ! exist on your wiki by default - BulldozerD11 11:52, June 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * You can also use  , instead of   and   to construct your tables if that makes it easier to understand. Most people use   and   inside of   --  Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 9:24 AM PST 11 Jun 2010