Help:Infobox

Infoboxes are like fact sheets, or sidebars in magazine articles, designed to present a summary of the topic of the page. They present important points in an organized and quickly readable format. Infoboxes are generally made using templates , to create consistency across a community.

Wikia has developed a new way to code infoboxes, called portable infoboxes to enable them to display well across different devices, which this page details. There are no changes to how you use an infobox on an article - instead, the changes affect how it is written on a template page. A tool to help with the migration of existing infoboxes has also been created - more information about this can be found on Help:Infobox migration .

Useful links:

• For a detailed list of all the standard options available for portable infoboxes, including samples of wikitext to use and their HTML output, see Help:Infoboxes/Tags
• For detailed information about how to use CSS to theme an infobox, including detailed guides, see Help:Infoboxes/CSS
• For instructions on how to migrate from a 'classic' infobox to a portable infobox, see Help:Infobox migration
• For a guide to using the Infobox Preview feature, see Help:Infobox preview

How to add an infobox to an article

You can add an infobox to an article the same way as you would any other template - either via the editor's built-in tools, or through the editor's source mode. In the VisualEditor , portable infoboxes can quickly be inserted via the Infobox option on the 'Insert' dropdown.

Meanwhile, in source mode, you would generally start by copying the syntax from the template's documentation (normally found towards the bottom of the template's page) and pasting it into an article, changing the words after the equals signs to provide the desired information. For example:

{{infobox character
 | title         = Daisy
 | image         = Example.jpg
 | imagecaption  = Daisy, blowing in the wind
 | position      = Supreme flower
 | age           = 2 months
 | status        = Active
 | height        = 5 inches
 | weight        = 20 grams
}}

With portable infoboxes, this works just the same as with any other template. However, the template page markup is a little different, as detailed below.

How to create an infobox

First, start new template with any name you like - Template:Example, for example. While in the past you may have used tables and divs, we now use infobox tags. We'll begin with a basic 'stacked' infobox, with a title and an image:

 layout="stacked">
   source="name">>{{PAGENAME}}>>
   source="image" />
>

This wikitext will tell your template to use name and image variables for title and image elements. Additionally you can provide the default tag, whose value will be used when a user does not specify a name/image/etc. on the article.

Now we just need two more fields containing additional information, so let's add one:

 source="season">>Season(s)>>

After adding one last field with source set to first and label to First seen , we end up with the following:

 layout="stacked">
   source="name">>{{PAGENAME}}>>
   source="image" />
   source="season">>Season(s)>>
   source="first">>First seen>>
>

We can now use the template in an article, inserting the following parameters to get a working infobox:

{{Example
 |name   = Eddard Stark
 |image  = eddard.jpg
 |season = [[Season 1|1]]
 |first  = "[[Winter is Coming]]"
}}

How to alter the infobox layout

Infoboxes using this kind of code are automatically styled, taking cues from your community's custom theme . If any of the variables are empty, the relevant row of the template will not be displayed (unless the 'default' tag has been used).

Layout options

Two alternative layout options are available for infoboxes:

Default (table) layout	Stacked layout
Labels are displayed to the left of the values	Labels are displayed above the values
> ... >	layout="stacked"> ... >

Custom theming

The default infobox theming can be overridden in two ways. There is a variable on your community's Special:WikiFeatures page entitled Europa Infobox Theme. When you enable it, your infoboxes will pull the colors you chose for your Wiki Navigation.

Your other option is to use local community CSS . Using the theme or theme-source attributes on the infobox tag will make it easy to target specific infobox templates using classes.

• The theme attribute is used to specify a custom CSS class for the infobox template.
• The theme-source attribute allows you to vary the CSS class via a template parameter.

For lots more information about how to use these attributes and theme an infobox, including detailed guides, please check out Help:Infoboxes/CSS !

How to use multiple images or videos

To use multiple images in one location in an infobox, you can simply pass a tag.

{{Example
 |name   = Eddard Stark
 |image  = >
Eddard 1.jpg|Eddard on a horse
Eddard 2.jpg|Eddard in a house
Eddard 3.jpg|Eddard by a hearse
>
}}

For more discussion about this ability, see this thread .

To add a video into an infobox, simply use the tag - just as you would with an image. When a video is inserted instead of an image, a thumbnail with a play icon and duration info will be shown in the infobox, and clicking on the video will pop up a video player. If you want to add multiple videos, add a new tag per each video.

How to group data

Now that you have created a simple infobox, you can learn how to use more advanced options. In the section below we show how to build the infobox seen on the right.

This infobox begins with three fields, then single