Help:Wiki University Wikitext--Infobox - Placing

How to place an infobox

 * Since they are a template, they are placed like templates, that is, with double opening and closing curly brackets like so:


 * However, to place a functioning infobox you have to add a way to substitute the actual information in place of the paramenter in the coding.

 Exercises

Use this coding for this exercise: Lets make this into a infobox: Check your answers >
 * 1) Put a border around the infobox, limit the width to 190 pixels and make it so that will always be on the right side of the page.
 * 2) Put borders around each of the cells.
 * 3) Have the cells containing the words organization and image span both columns.
 * 4) Center the name of the organization and the image in their cells.
 * 5) Make the items in the right hand cells into parameters.

 Quick Quiz
 * Parameters have two opening and closing curly brackets surrounding them.
 * A. True
 * B. False


 * Infoboxes usually are located at the top of the page on the right side.
 * A. True
 * B. False

Check your answers >
 * Infoboxes are saved just like other templates but it is good practice to included the word "infobox" in its title.