Forum:What am I doing wrong with infoboxes?
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I know less that nothing about coding, but I want just a simple infobox for my wiki. The problem is that it never turns out right? I'll put a copy of the code, I made some random edits to see if it would fix it but I don't know if it made it better or worse.
{| style="border: 1px solid #aaa; border-spacing: 0; float: right; margin: 0 0 .5em 1em; width: 300px;"
| style="background-color: #ffffff; text-align: center;" |
<p style="font-size: larger;">'''{{{name|{{PAGENAME}}}}}'''</p>
<div style="background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0 25px;">[[File:{{{image}}}|250px|link=]]</div>
<p>{{{caption}}}</p>
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | <u>'''Basic information'''</u>
{| style="margin: 0 25px; text-align: center;"
{{#if:{{{other names|}}}|
! style="text-align: center;" {{!}} Other Names:
{{!}} {{{other names}}} }}
{{#if:{{{gender|}}}|
{{!}}-
! style="text-align: center;" {{!}} Gender:
{{!}} {{{gender}}} }}
{{#if:{{{sex|}}}|
{{!}}-
! style="text-align: center;" {{!}} Sex:
{{!}} {{{sex}}} }}
{{#if:{{{age|}}}|
{{!}}-
! style="text-align: center;" {{!}} Age:
{{!}} {{{age}}} }}
{{#if:{{{birthday|}}}|
{{!}}-
! style="text-align: center;" {{!}} Birthday:
{{!}} {{{birthday}}} }}
{{#if:{{{sexual orientation|}}}|
{{!}}-
! style="text-align: center;" {{!}} Sexual Orientation:
{{!}} {{{sexual orientation}}} }}
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | <u>'''Occupational Information'''</u>
{| style="margin: 0 25px; text-align: center;"
{{#if:{{{job|}}}|
! style="text-align: center;" {{!}} Job:
{{!}} {{{job}}} }}
{{#if:{{{class|}}}|
{{!}}-
! style="text-align: center;" {{!}} Class:
{{!}} {{{class}}} }}
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | <u>'''Relationships'''</u>
{| style="margin: 0 25px; text-align: center;"
{{#if:{{{family|}}}|
! style="text-align: center;" {{!}} Family:
{{!}} {{{family}}} }}
{{#if:{{{romance|}}}|
{{!}}-
! style="text-align: center;" {{!}} Romantic Relationships:
{{!}} {{{romance}}} }}
{{#if:{{{close friendships|}}}|
{{!}}-
! style="text-align: center;" {{!}} Close Friendships:
{{!}} {{{close friendships}}} }}
{{#if:{{{tense|}}}|
{{!}}-
! style="text-align: center;" {{!}} Tense Relationships:
{{!}} {{{tense}}} }}
|}
|}
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by EchoOfStarlight (talk • contribs) 17:18, 2 November 2019 (UTC). Please sign your posts with --~~~~!
Hello. So I'm not an expert with wikicode, either, but I do have some coding experience. I tried taking a look at another infobox for comparison. Here's a snippet of coding from it:
{{#if: {{{Level|}}} | {{!}} width=80 {{!}} <div>Level</div> {{!!}} {{{Level}}} }}
|-
{{#if: {{{Difficulty|}}} | {{!}} <div>[[Difficulty]]</div> {{!!}} {{{Difficulty}}} }}
|-
The first thing I noticed is that, on this other infobox template, there's a "|-" between every field, while yours seems to be missing a lot of those. (There's also some spacing differences - I don't think those are too likely to be a part of the problem, but I guess it's worth trying to put more spaces between the different parts of code.) I don't know if this is a style thing or a functionality thing, but it could be a factor.
I'm also noticing that the other infobox doesn't seem to have any "!"s without any brackets around them - that could also be a factor.
Taking another look, the other infobox also starts with this piece of coding:
{| class="infoboxtable"
|-
! colspan="2" class="infoboxname" |
I think there's a pretty good chance that the biggest issue is that you're missing the 'class="infoboxtable"' and/or 'class="infoboxname"' parts. That's just my guess as a coder who's fairly new to wikicode, though. XD;
So how about you try those out and let me know if you're still having problems? =) If so, could you tell me exactly what kind of problems you're still having? Maybe include an image?
I hope that helps. ^_^ Scia (talk) 00:11, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
