Forum:Template help, please?

I realize that there are a lot of requests for help with templates. I've tried to search myself, but I'm still confused so I'm finally giving in and taking this to the forums and to folks better at this than me.

On www.memory-alpha.org there is a template for a sidebar that a friend of mine and I would like to put on our own wikis. Here's the url to that: http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Benjamin_Sisko

I've copied and pasted the template, documentation and the css information onto my own wiki. I don't know what a js is, so maybe that's my problem. I'm able to do the picture and the information, but I can't get the structure right. Mine doesn't justify to the right or have a border, nor will it take on another color, despite me having a class tag at the top.

In a regular table on the same page I've managed to create a table that is perfect. I can't change the background color or text color like I want, but structuraly it is exactly the right size and right aligned just like I want it. I just can't seem to translate that into a template.

This is the URL that has the product of my failed attempt at a template on it as well as the table that I'd like for the template to look like. I would prefer to do this on my own without someone just making the template for me, but I could really use some help. I understand HTML and CSS, but this is a little over my head.

http://malfoy-mansion.wikia.com/wiki/SandboxPage

Thanks so much!

Isadorabelle 03:22, June 23, 2011 (UTC)


 * I copied the relevant css code from memory-alpha to my personal css page. Just copy the code to your MediaWiki:Wikia.css to make the Character Stats template look similarly to the one on memory-alpha.


 * Your wiki is using a different color theme, that's why some elements (like the normal font color) won't play well - you'll have to do some tweaks in the css page to make it look good. — Sovq 07:47, June 23, 2011 (UTC)