This is the tmbox (talk page message box) meta-template. It is used in talk pages and is called by other templates to give a consistent structure and appearance to boilerplate messages used on talk pages across the project.
Usage
{{tmbox|text=Text goes here.}}
would produce this:
Text goes here.
{{tmbox| type = style
| image =[[File:Emblem-question-yellow.svg|40px|link=|alt=]]| style = width: 400px;
| textstyle = color: red; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;
| text = The message body text.
}}
yields:
The message body text.
Types
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. Used by default.
type=move – Merge, split, rename and transwiki messages and proposals.
type=protection – Protection templates.
Parameters
List of all parameters:
{{tmbox| name = name of the template
| 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
| plainlinks = no
| 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.
}}
name
(Optional) Name of the template. This adds a CSS class with name box-name to the HTML element, for use by bots or scripts.
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:
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:
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 " " but with the ending semicolons ;. For example:
style = margin-bottom: 0.5em;
textstyle
Optional CSS values used by the text cell. For example:
textstyle = text-align: center;
plainlinks
Normally on Wikipedia, external links have an arrow icon next to them, like this: Example.com. However, in message boxes, the arrow icon is suppressed by default, like this: Example.com. To get the normal style of external link with the arrow icon, use |plainlinks=no.
text
The message body text.
The small parameters
small = 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:
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:
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:
