Template:Messagebox
Usage
The template takes three named parameters that can be given in any order.
- text
- (required) is the message
- type
- (optional) determines the presentation using pre-defined styling. One of
- success
- warning
- failure
- normal (default)
- style
- (optional) is CSS that will be passed through.
Literal Example
{{Messagebox
| type = success
| style = width:50%;
| text = your message content
}}
For a more complex (up to 80 parameters) template, see the Infobox template Template_talk:Infobox
Visual Examples
Making this template
The parser code (how to do switch statements) is based on the example of the Ambox template from Mediawiki
The following CSS is added to skins/freephile/freephile_template.css to make this template complete
The background images for the CSS are put into the images subfolder to make it easier to distinguish what is based on monobook, and what is extra
.message-box {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color:#EBFFEA; border:1px solid #0BD200; color:#333333; padding:8px; margin:10px;background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: 6px 6px;}
.message-box a:link, .message-box a:active, .message-box a:visited {color:#990000;text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px solid #cccccc;}
.message-box a:hover {color:#990000;text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px solid #990000;}
.message-success {font-weight: bold;border:1px solid #8FD500; background-color:#F2FFD7; background-image: url(images/check.gif);padding-left: 28px;}
.message-failure {font-weight: bold; color: #990000; border:1px solid #DD3C10; background-color:#FFEBE8; background-image: url(images/wrong.gif);padding-left: 28px;}
.message-warning {font-weight: bold;color:#FF6633;border: 1px solid #ff9900; background-color:#fbf8c7; background-image: url(images/warning_sign.gif);padding-left: 28px;}
.message-box .message-normal {font-weight:normal;color: #333;}