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[edit] Welcome

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Enjoy! :) Phil.e. ^{[Talk to me]} 23:27, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Still learny my way around the inter wiki commands --Roguebfl ^(talk) 15:42, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infoboxes

Thanks for your reply.

I am relatively new to wikis in general, and although I am now relatively competent at simple things (Links, Categories etc.) when you face me with all the endless squiggles that make up templates I can't do very much!

If you would like to try to help me create a template, or make one yourself on Children's Books Wiki you are welcome to - I only really need one at the moment, because the wiki is so young.

Thanks, Bethel23 20:12, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm no expert myself but have a look at c:oots:Template:Character_infobox --Roguebfl^(talk) 20:26, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

I have now tried using the template you recomeneded to me - it nearly worked! You can see my attempt here. It has done the hidable stuff - however, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, you can see the "attempt". As you should be able to see, it is mis-aligned, with the info down more than the heading. Is there a simple way of fixing this? Bethel23 12:35, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Missaligned in what way? --Roguebfl^(talk) 19:13, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

The info to the right of the title (i.e. Author Bilbo Baggins) where "Bilbo Baggins" is lower than "Author". Bethel23 14:22, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

the problem is with the "classes" you set, infoboxlabel makes the text aligned to the top of the table cell, as you other cells use the default alignment --Roguebfl^(talk) 20:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

So, how do I fix that? Bethel23 14:22, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

But makes sure class="infoboxlabel" and class="infoboxcell" are the same. either change all instances of one to the other, or removed all instances of both. --Roguebfl^(talk) 17:33, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I have now changed all class="infoboxlabel" to class="infoboxcell" and still the same problem of the misalignment. Bethel23 20:37, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

The problem is inherent to the class="infoboxtable". it but removing it removes other other formating. it would take lot of work to fix (finding exactly what infoboxtable sets to replicate the parts we want) --Roguebfl^(talk) 02:02, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much for all your help, energy, and time. As the problem is complicated I shall just soldier on with our "normal" infobox. Again, thank you. Bethel23 14:36, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sorted infoboxes

We have finally managed to get our infobox working! We copied it from the Redwall wiki, from their page Template:Character. We then changed it to suit our needs, added the instructions to hide the rows if there wasn't any info, and, there you are! You can see the template's code here amd you can see template in use here. Bethel23 08:12, 7 January 2009 (UTC)