Template:Mbox/doc

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This is a documentation subpage for Template:Mbox (see that page for the template itself).
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This is the {{mbox}} or multi namespace message box meta-template.

Note! This template is NOT ready for use yet. Thus don't use this meta-template for real message boxes yet, but feel free to use it for testing. First the {{ombox}} and {{tmbox}} need to be properly tested and consensus for their styles achieved. And this template itself needs to be properly tested.

This meta-template is used to build message box templates that are used on several types of pages and thus need to change style depending on what page they are used on. Based on page type detected it uses one of {{ambox}}, {{tmbox}}, {{imbox}}, {{cmbox}} and {{ombox}}.

[edit] Usage

This template takes the same parameters as {{ambox}} and {{imbox}} etc. See full documentation there.

Some of the boxes this template calls only handles images of max 52px width, thus that limitation also applies to this template or you will get ugly padding problems.

This template optionally takes the "demospace" parameter as described at {{namespace detect}}.

(This documentation will be extended when this template is ready for use.)

[edit] Parameters

List of all parameters:

{{mbox
| demospace = main / talk / image / category / other
| type  = speedy / delete / content / style / notice / move / protection
| image = none / [[Image:Some image.svg|40px]]
| imageright = [[Image:Some image.svg|40px]]
| style = CSS value
| textstyle = CSS value
| text  = The message body text. 
}}

[edit] See also

There are several meta-templates in the mbox family:

  • {{ambox}} – For article message boxes.
  • {{tmbox}} – For talk page message boxes.
  • {{imbox}} – For image page message boxes.
  • {{cmbox}} – For category message boxes.
  • {{ombox}} – For other pages message boxes.
  • {{mbox}} – Has namespace detection, for message boxes that are used on several types of pages and thus need to change style depending on what page they are used on.