This is the {{tmbox}}, or talk page message box, meta-template. This template is called by other templates to give a consistent structure and appearance to boilerplate messages used on talk pages across the project. It may be called directly on a talk page in order to present a one-off message in the same format as boilerplate messages, but this is non-standard (if a message is important enough to be presented in this form, you should consider creating a separate template so that it is easily available to other editors). Tmbox offers several different colors for different purposes, provides default images if no image parameter is given, and has some other pleasant features.
This template works similarly to {{ambox}} and uses the same parameters.
Usage
ಸಂಪಾದಿಸಿSimple usage example:
{{tmbox | text = Some text.}}
Some text. |
Complex example:
{{tmbox | type = style | image = [[File:Emblem-question-yellow.svg|40px]] | style = width: 400px | textstyle = color: red; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic | text = The message body text. }}
The message body text. |
Talk page message box types
ಸಂಪಾದಿಸಿThe following examples use different type parameters but use no image parameters thus they use the default images for each type.
type=speedy – Speedy deletion templates. |
type=delete – Deletion templates. |
type=content – Major warnings and problems. |
type=style – Minor warnings and problems. |
type=notice – Notices and messages of any kind, both permanent and temporary. |
type=move – Merge, split, rename and transwiki messages and proposals. |
type=protection – Protection templates. |
Special
ಸಂಪಾದಿಸಿSome other parameter combinations.
No type and no image given (default) |
No type and image=none – No image is used and the text uses the whole message box area. |
image = [[File:Gnome globe current event.svg|42px]] imageright = [[File:Nuvola apps bookcase.svg|40px]] |
Parameters
ಸಂಪಾದಿಸಿList of all parameters:
{{tmbox | type = speedy / delete / content / style / notice / move / protection | image = none / [[File:Some image.svg|40px]] | imageright = [[File:Some image.svg|40px]] | style = CSS values | textstyle = CSS values | text = The message body text. | small = {{{small|}}} / yes | smallimage = none / [[File:Some image.svg|30px]] | smallimageright = none / [[File:Some image.svg|30px]] | smalltext = A shorter message body text. }}
type
- If no type parameter is given the template defaults to type notice. That means it gets a gray border.
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. (But the message box can handle images of any size.) For example:
image = [[File:Crystal package settings.png|40px]]
- none = Means that no image is used.
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. (But the message box can handle images of any size.) For example:
imageright = [[File:Nuvola apps bookcase.png|40px]]
- Anything = Any other object that you want to show on the right side.
style
- Optional CSS values used by the entire message box table. Without quotation marks
" "
and the ending semicolon;
. For example:style = margin-bottom: 0.5em
textstyle
- Optional CSS values used by the text cell. For example:
textstyle = text-align: center
text
- The message body text.
The small parameters
ಸಂಪಾದಿಸಿsmall = yes |
type = style small = yes |
small
- yes = Makes it a smaller right floating message box. This also makes the default images smaller. Note that any data fed to the smallimage, smallimageright and smalltext parameters is only used if "small=yes". To make it so your template also understands the small parameter you can use this code:
small = {{{small|}}}
small = yes image = [[File:Nuvola apps bookcase.png|40px]] smallimage = [[File:Nuvola apps bookcase.png|30px]] |
smallimage
- No parameter = If no smallimage parameter is given then this template falls back to use the image parameter. If the image parameter also is empty then a small default image is used.
- An image = Should be an image with usual wiki notation. 30px width is usually about right. For example:
smallimage = [[File:Crystal package settings.png|30px]]
- none = Means that no image is used. This overrides any image fed to image, when "small=yes".
small = yes imageright = [[File:Nuvola apps bookcase.png|40px]] |
small = yes imageright = [[File:Nuvola apps bookcase.png|40px]] smallimageright = none |
smallimageright
- No parameter = If no smallimageright parameter is given then this template falls back to use the imageright parameter. If the imageright parameter also is empty then no image is shown on the right side.
- An image = Should be an image with usual wiki notation. 30px width is usually about right. For example:
smallimageright = [[File:Nuvola apps bookcase.png|30px]]
- Anything = Any other object that you want to show on the right side.
- none = Means that no right side image is used. This overrides any image fed to imageright, when "small=yes".
smalltext
- A shorter version of the message body text. If no smalltext parameter is given then this template falls back to use the text parameter.
Technical details
ಸಂಪಾದಿಸಿIf you need to use special characters in the text parameter then you need to escape them like this:
{{tmbox | text = <div> Equal sign = and a start and end brace { } work fine as they are. But here is a pipe {{!}} and two end braces <nowiki>}}</nowiki>. And now a pipe and end braces <nowiki>|}}</nowiki>. </div> }}
Equal sign = and a start and end brace { } work fine as they are. But here is a pipe | and two end braces }}. And now a pipe and end braces |}}. |
This template uses the tmbox CSS classes in Gadget-enwp-boxes.css for most of it's looks, thus it is fully skinnable.
This template calls {{tmbox/core}} which holds most of the code for {{tmbox}}, while {{tmbox}} itself does parameter preprocessing.
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. Since this template works almost exactly like {{ambox}}, {{imbox}}, {{cmbox}} and {{ombox}} their talk pages and related pages might also contain more details.