Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-25295528-20160609185548/@comment-27073024-20160610111906

The problem is that you're using the default navbox template provided by Wikia when the community was first founded. The template you're trying to create is calling for parameters that don't exist in the source  template.

This is the navbox template I use. Feel free to replace your navbox template code with this one: {{#switch:|subgroup|child=|none=|#default= {| class="navbox" cellspacing="0" style=";" {| cellspacing="0" class="nowraplinks {{#switch:|subgroup|child|none=navbox-subgroup" style="width:100%;{{{bodystyle|}}};|#default=" style="width:100%;background:transparent;color:inherit}};;" {{#if:| ! style="border-left:2px solid #fdfdfd;width:100%;| ! style="}};" colspan= class="navbox-title" | {{#if: {{#if:||{{#switch:|subgroup|child|none=1}}}}| | }}   }}{{#if:| {{#if:|  }}{{#if:|{{#if:| {{!}}- {{!}} class="navbox-abovebelow" style=";" colspan="" {{!}}  }} {{!}}}{{#switch:{{{border|{{{1|}}}}}}|subgroup|child=|none=|#default= {{!}}} }}
 * style="padding:2px;" | }}
 * style="padding:2px;" | }}
 * - {{#if:|
 * class="navbox-group" style=";;" |
 * -{{#if:|
 * style="width:0%;padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;" rowspan= | }} width:100%;padding:0px;;;" class="navbox-list navbox-" | 
 * style="width:0%;padding:0px 0px 0px 2px;" rowspan= | }} }}{{#if:| {{#if:|
 * - style="height:2px"
 * }}
 * - {{#if:|
 * class="navbox-group" style=";;" |
 * style="text-align:left;border-left:2px solid #fdfdfd;|
 * colspan=2 style="}} width:100%;padding:0px;;;" class="navbox-list navbox-" | 
 * - style="height:2px;"
 * }}

And this is the CSS that goes with it (to provide a default style). You should put it in the Commons.css page: /* ===================================== */ /* Styling For Navbox & Navbar Templates */ /* ===================================== */ /* Default style for navigation boxes */ .navbox {                    /* Navbox container style */ border: 1px solid #aaa; width: 100%; margin: auto; clear: both; font-size: 88%; text-align: center; padding: 1px; } .navbox-inner, .navbox-subgroup { width: 100%; } .navbox-group, .navbox-title, .navbox-abovebelow { padding: 0.25em 1em;     /* Title, group and above/below styles */ line-height: 1.5em; text-align: center; } th.navbox-group {            /* Group style */ white-space: nowrap; /* @noflip */ text-align: right; } .navbox, .navbox-subgroup { background: #fdfdfd;     /* Background color */ } .navbox-list { line-height: 1.5em; border-color: #fdfdfd;   /* Must match background color */ } .navbox th, .navbox-title { background: #ccccff;     /* Level 1 color */ } .navbox-abovebelow, th.navbox-group, .navbox-subgroup .navbox-title { background: #ddddff;     /* Level 2 color */ } .navbox-subgroup .navbox-group, .navbox-subgroup .navbox-abovebelow { background: #e6e6ff;     /* Level 3 color */ } .navbox-even { background: #f7f7f7;     /* Even row striping */ } .navbox-odd { background: transparent; /* Odd row striping */ } table.navbox { margin-top: 1em;         /* Prevent preceding content from clinging to navboxes */ } table.navbox table.navbox { margin-top: 0;           /* No top margin for nested navboxes */ } table.navbox + table.navbox { margin-top: -1px;        /* Single pixel border between adjacent navboxes */ } .navbox .hlist td dl, .navbox .hlist td ol, .navbox .hlist td ul, .navbox td.hlist dl, .navbox td.hlist ol, .navbox td.hlist ul { padding: 0.125em 0;      /* Adjust hlist padding in navboxes */ } /* Default styling for Navbar template */ .navbar { display: inline; font-size: 88%; font-weight: normal; } .navbar ul { display: inline; white-space: nowrap; } .mw-body-content .navbar ul { line-height: inherit; } .navbar li { word-spacing: -0.125em; } .navbar.mini li span { font-variant: small-caps; } /* Navbar styling when nested in infobox and navbox */ .infobox .navbar { font-size: 100%; } .navbox .navbar { display: block; font-size: 100%; } .navbox-title .navbar { /* @noflip */ float: left; /* @noflip */ text-align: left; /* @noflip */ margin-right: 0.5em; width: 6em; } /* Show / hide buttons created dynamically by the CollapsibleTables javascript in MediaWiki:Common.js are styled here so they can be customised. */ .collapseButton { /* @noflip */ float: right; font-weight: normal; /* @noflip */ margin-left: 0.5em; /* @noflip */ text-align: right; width: auto; } /* In navboxes, the show / hide button balances the v·d·e links from Template:Navbar, so they need to be the same width. */ .navbox .collapseButton { width: 6em; } /* Styling for JQuery makeCollapsible, matching that of collapseButton */ .mw-collapsible-toggle { font-weight: normal; /* @noflip */ text-align: right; } .navbox .mw-collapsible-toggle { width: 6em; }

Additionally, the navbox template above uses the  template to provide easy linking to the template from within the article. Feel free to add this template to your wiki (it must be called Navbar):   &#32;&middot;&#32; 

If you want the "[Collapse] / [Expand]" links to match the color of the navbox title, add this to the Common.css page: .mw-collapsible-toggle a { color:inherit; }

Finally, once you get the templates and CSS settled, take a look at it's documentation to understand how to use it in an article. I have it documented here: Template:Navbox/doc

You can view a live example of one I created here: Template:Policies

PS: The navbox template above can go to a maximum of 20 groups / lists. However, you can nest the template into itself to get sub-groups / lists. A live complex example would be here: Template:Merchandise

If you need more help, write back!