Portal:NetPath/box-title

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Revision as of 21:29, 26 March 2008

This template generates a box for a portal home page. There are two types of boxes by default, 'title' and 'normal', which can be configured and used to give produce a unique look. Using these templates make editing a portal page easy!

Example

Here's an example of the output generated by this template.

Prerequisites

• Create a subpage first. If your portal is Portal:Test, then a subpage could be Portal:Test/News.

Parameters

Using this template for your portal page is easy! Just include these parameters

• title: The title text of the box. This is normally passed in as the first variable {{{1}}} when this template is used.
• editpage: (optional) The subpage that should be edited to change the contents of the box, e.g., Portal:Test/News. This is normally passed in as the second variable {{{2}}} when this template is used. If left blank, no edit link is generated, effectively protecting the contents from user edits.
• contents: The subpage that contains the contents of the box, e.g., Portal:Test/News. This is normally passed in as the third variable {{{3}}} when this template is used.
• footer: (optional) A link to any wiki or website page. This is normally passed in as the fourth variable {{{4}}} when this template is used. If left blank, no footer link is generated.
• title-font-size: The size of title text font.
• titleforeground: The color of the title text.
• titlebackground: The color of the background title bar.
• foreground: The color of the box area text.
• background: The color of the background box area.
• border: The color of the border around the box.