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This template is intended as a meta template: a template used for constructing other templates. '''Note''': In general, it is not meant for use directly in an article, but can be used on a one-off basis if required. [[Help:Infobox]] contains an introduction about the recommended content and design of infoboxes; [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes]] contains additional style guidelines. See [[WP:List of infoboxes]] and [[:Category:Infobox templates]] for lists of prepared topic-specific | label1 = Former names| data1 = {{{former_names|}}}
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<includeonly>{{#ifeq:{{#titleparts:{{PAGENAME}}|1|2}}|old ||{{High-use|3,000,000+}}{{Lua|Module:Infobox}}}}</includeonly>
{{Parameter names example
|name={{PAGENAME}} <!--|child |subbox |decat--> |title |above |subheader |subheader1 |subheader2={{{subheader2}}}<br/>......
|image|caption |image1|caption1 |image2|caption2={{{caption2}}}<br/>......
|header1=<div style="border-top:1px dashed #ccc;">{{{header1}}}<br/>{{nobold|( ''or'' )}}</div>
|label2={{{label1}}} |data2={{{data1}}}
|data3=( ''or'' ) |data4=<div style="padding-bottom:0.25em;border-bottom:1px dashed #ccc;">{{{data1}}}</div>
|header5={{{header2}}}<br/><div style="padding:0.75em 0 0.5em;">{{nobold|( ''or'' )}}</div>
|label6={{{label2}}} |data6={{{data2}}}
|data7=( ''or'' ) |data8=<div style="padding-bottom:0.25em;border-bottom:1px dashed #ccc;">{{{data2}}}</div>
|data9=<div style="padding:0.75em 0 0.5em;">( ''etc'' )</div>
|below
}}
This template is intended as a meta template: a template used for constructing other templates. '''Note''': In general, it is not meant for use directly in an article, but can be used on a one-off basis if required. [[Help:Infobox]] contains an introduction about the recommended content and design of infoboxes; [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes]] contains additional style guidelines. See [[WP:List of infoboxes]] and [[:Category:Infobox templates]] for lists of prepared topic-specific infoboxes.
== Usage ==
{{tlf|Infobox}} is a meta-template: used to organise an actual <nowiki>{{Infobox sometopic}}</nowiki> template (like {{tl|Infobox building}}).
For <code><nowiki>[[Template:Infobox sometopic]]</nowiki></code>, template code then looks like this, simplified:
<pre>
{{Infobox
| name = {{{name|{{PAGENAME}}}}}
| image = {{{image|}}}
| caption1 = {{{caption|}}}}}}
| header2 = General information | label3 = Status| data3 = {{{status|}}}... <!-- etc. -->}}</pre> == Optional control parameters ==
; name : If this parameter is present, "view/discuss/edit" links will be added to the bottom of the infobox, pointing to the named page. You may use the value <nowiki>{{subst:PAGENAME}}</nowiki>; however this is rarely what you want, because it will send users clicking these links in an infobox in an article to the template code rather than the data in the infobox that they probably want to change.
; child : See the [[#Embedding|Embedding]] section for details. If this is set to "yes", this child infobox should be titled but have no name parameter. This parameter is empty by default, set it to "yes" to activate it.
| label6 = Static item | data6 = Static value
}}
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{{Infobox
| title = Example of an optional header
| label6 = Static item | data6 = Static value
}}
</presource>{{clear}}
header1 will be shown if any of item1, item2, or item3 is defined. If none of the three parameters are defined the header won't be shown and no empty row appears before the next static content. The trick to this is that the "<code>#if" </code> returns false only if there is nothing whatsoever in the conditional section, so only if all three of item1, item2 and item3 are undefined will the if statement fail.
Note that such trick may be sometimes very complex to test if there are many data items whose value depends on complex tests (or when a data row is generated by a recursive invokation of this template as a [[#Subboxes|subbox]]). Ideally, the Lua module supporting this template should now support a new way to make each header row autohideable by detecting if there is at least one non-empty data row after that header row (a parameter like "{{para|autohide header1 = | yes"}}, for example, would remove the need to perform the "<code>#if" </code> test so that we can just to define "{{para|header1 = | Optional header"}}),
=== Footer ===
|titlestyle =
|abovestyle = background:#cfc;
|subheaderstyle =
|title = Test Infobox
|below = Below text
}}
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{{Infobox
|name = {{subst:PAGENAME}}
|titlestyle =
|abovestyle = background:#cfc;
|subheaderstyle =
|title = Test Infobox
|below = Below text
}}
</presource>{{clear}}
For this example, the '''{{para|bodystyle''' }} and '''{{para|labelstyle''' }} parameters are used to adjust the infobox width and define a default width for the column of labels:
{{Infobox
* [[Module:Infobox]], the [[WP:LUA|Lua]] module on which this template is based
* [[Special:Permalink/558855956|Template:Infobox/old]], the previous ParserFunctions implementation
* [[Module:Check for unknown parameters]]
* {{tl|Infobox3cols}}
* {{tl|Navbox}} and {{tl|Sidebar}}