Template:Ambox/doc

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This is the ambox or article message box meta template.

It is used to create article message box templates such as NPOV dispute etc. It offers several different colours, uses default images if no image parameter is given and it has some other features.

Usage
Simple usage example:

Complex example:

Default images
The following examples use different type parameters but use no image parameters thus they use the default images for each type.

Parameters
List of all parameters:

type
 * If no type parameter is given the template defaults to type notice which is used for "article notices". That means it gets a blue side bar like in the simple usage example above.

image
 * No parameter = If no image parameter is given the template uses a default image. Which default image it uses depends on the type parameter.
 * An image = Should be an image with usual wiki notation. 40px - 50px width are usually about right depending on the image height to width ratio. For example:
 * none = Means that no image is used.
 * blank = Means that no image is used but an empty area the same size as a default image is used, which means that text in the message box gets aligned well with other article message boxes. (See the "special" examples above.)
 * blank = Means that no image is used but an empty area the same size as a default image is used, which means that text in the message box gets aligned well with other article message boxes. (See the "special" examples above.)

imageright
 * No parameter = If no imageright parameter is given then no image is shown on the right side.
 * An image = Should be an image with usual wiki notation. 40px - 50px width are usually about right depending on the image height to width ratio. For example:
 * Anything = Any other object that you want to show on the right side.
 * Anything = Any other object that you want to show on the right side.

text
 * The message body text.

id
 * Html id for table (don't use unless you have good reason)

Technical details
If you need to use special characters in the text parameter then you need to escape them like this: &lt;/nowiki>. And now a pipe and end braces &lt;nowiki>|}}&lt;/nowiki>. }}

. And now a pipe and end braces |}}. }}

This template uses CSS classes for most of its looks, thus it is fully "skinnable".

The CSS classes can also be used directly in a wikitable. Like this:

Internally this meta template uses HTML markup instead of wiki markup for the table code. That is the usual way we make meta templates since wiki markup has several drawbacks. For instance it makes it harder to use parser functions and special characters in parameters.

For more technical details see the |talk page and the "See also" links below.

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