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{{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 {{inuse}}, {{underconstruction}} or {{docstatus}}. Those templates provide default parameters to have a consistant look and feel for alert message boxes including a standard message text.

Parameters

Mandatory:

text

the message text to display

Optional:

style (empty)

value of the HTML style attribute applied to the table element

type (notice)

controls the class attribute used

image (none)

an image from the Image: namespace as a notification icon

imageright (none)

an supplemental image from the Image: namespace, shown in a third column

type

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

image

Please update this list to the image names used.

Value	Image name
serious
content	(jdn-icon)
style	(style--icon)
merge	(merge-icon)
notice
blank	empty cell
#default	empty cell

imageright

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

Stylesheet

table.metadata plainlinks ambox type
td.ambox-image
td.ambox-imageright