Template:Infobox/doc

Usage
This template is intended as a meta-template, that is, a template that's used when constructing other templates. It's not meant for use directly in an article. See Help:Infobox for information on how to craft infoboxes in general.

Usage is similar to navbox, but with an additional distinction. Each row on the table can either be a "header", or it can have a label/data pair, or it can just be a data cell. These are mutually exclusive states so if you define a row to be both a header and a label/data pair, the label/data pair is overridden.

Note that if you want to insert an image elsewhere other than the top of the infobox, or insert other "freeform" data, using a row with just a "data" field allows for that sort of thing.

Parameters
Mandatory: If no name or title are given, the pagename is used. Optional content:
 * name : The template page name that the "view/discuss/edit" links should point to. You can use.
 * title : A title to put in the titlebar at the top.


 * image : An image to display at the top of the template. Use full image syntax, for example [[Image:example.png|200px]] . Image is centered by default.
 * caption : Text to put underneath the image.
 * header(n) : Text to use as a header in row n.
 * label(n): Text to use as a label in row n.
 * data(n): Text to display as data in row n.
 * below: Text to put in the bottom cell. The bottom cell is intended for footnotes, see-also, and other such information.

Optional CSS styling:


 * bodystyle : Applies to the infobox table as a whole
 * titlestyle : Applies only to the title cell
 * imagestyle : Applies to the cell the image is in (including the caption)
 * captionstyle : Applies to the text of the caption
 * headerstyle : Applies to all header cells
 * labelstyle : Applies to all label cells
 * datastyle : Applies to all data cells
 * belowstyle : Applies only to the below cell

Making fields optional
A row with a label but no data is not displayed. This allows for optional infobox contents. To make a field optional, use a parameter that defaults to an empty string, like so:


 * data5=

For more complex fields with preformatted contents that would still be present if a parameter was unset, you can wrap it all in a simple "if" statement to make the whole thing vanish when not used. Example:


 * data5=

Examples


Notice how when a label is defined without an accompanying data cell the row doesn't appear in the displayed infobox, and when a header is defined on the same row as a data cell all of them are displayed.

For this example, bodystyle &#0061; width:20em; and labelstyle &#0061; width:33%;



Embedding
One infobox template can be embedded into another using the child parameter. This feature can be used to create a modular infobox, or to create more well defined logical sections.



Note, in the examples above, the child infobox is placed in a  field, not a   field. The title will be enclosed in  bold tags, which can create a "double bolding effect" in some browsers if the child infobox is placed in a  field. To place the child infobox in a header field and avoid the double bolding effect, use



Full blank declaration
(Note: the template currently handles up to 99 rows; only 20 are given below since infoboxes larger than that will be relatively rare. Just extend the numbering as needed. The microformat "class" parameters are also omitted as they are not commonly used.)

