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Template documentation

This documentation is transcluded from Template:Ambox/doc.
This template has a sandbox (edit) and testcases for editors to experiment.

To discuss this template as a whole, please see JDOC:WTP. If you wish to discuss general wordings, rather than the wording or formatting of this specific template, don't post here, or else what you say will probably go unnoticed.

{{ambox}} is the base tempate used by several "alert message boxes" which can be placed at the top of an article. It generates a two column table with an optional "message icon". The message text must be provided by the calling template in the {{{text}}} parameter.

ambox should never be used directly, but only via "proxy templates" such as {{notice}}, {{inuse}}, {{underconstruction}}, or other Marker templates. Those templates provide default parameters to have a consistant look and feel for alert message boxes including a standard message text and appropriate category tags.

Parameters

Mandatory:

text

the message text to display

Optional:

type (notice)

controls the box color

image (none)

a notification icon.

imageright (none)

a supplemental image from the Image: namespace, shown in a third (right) column

type

Value	CSS class	Preview
serious	ambox-serious
content	ambox-content
style	ambox-style
merge	ambox-merge
notice	ambox-notice
growth	ambox-growth
protection	ambox-protection
#default	ambox-notice	see notice

The color scheme is based off the official Joomla! logo and working group color palette and available for users of the Monobook and Joomla! skins.

image

Please update this list to the image names used.

Value	Image name
serious
content
style
merge
notice
growth	File:Green-plus-icon.png
jdoc
blank	empty cell
#default	empty cell

imageright

An optional, arbitrary image from the File namespace. If this value is not empty, a third right column in added to the alert box to display the given image.

Try it in the Template:Ambox/sandbox.

Stylesheet

table.ambox           (basic table settings)
table.ambox-type      (text and border colors)
td.ambox-image        (left icon column)
td.ambox-imageright   (right image column)
table.standard-main   (namespace specific overrides {{main talk file other}})
table.standard-talk
table.standard-file
table.standard-other

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