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<div class="message-box
{{#switch:{{{type|}}}
| success = message-success
| warning = message-warning
| failure = message-failure
| normal <!-- normal = default -->
| #default = message-normal
}}" style="{{{style|}}}">
{{{text}}}
</div>
<!-- Detect and report usage with faulty "type" parameter:
-->{{#switch:{{{type|}}}
| <!-- No type fed, is also valid input -->
| success
| warning
| failure
| normal = <!-- Do nothing, valid "type" -->
| #default = <div style="text-align: center;">This message box is using an invalid "type={{{type|}}}" parameter and needs fixing. ([[:Category:templates using deprecated types|learn more]])</div><!-- Sort on namespace -->
}}
<noinclude>
== Usage ==
The template takes two named parameters. '''type''' is optional
<pre>
{{Messagebox
|type = success (or warning, failure, normal) can be left blank
|text = your message content
}}
</pre>
For a more complex (up to 80 parameters) template, see the Infobox template [[Template_talk:Infobox]]
== 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
<source lang="css">
.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;}
</source>
</noinclude>
[[Category:Templates using ParserFunctions]]