Template talk:Userboxtop

message: The "Usage" section should describe what the parameters can be. I have no idea what the valid alignments are for "align=", for instance... left, right, center, none? What are the defaults if you don't have a parameter, and what are the other defaults if you have a parameter but leave it blank after the equal sign? --Tifego 00:23, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Expanded the docs signicantly. —Locke Cole • t • c 07:29, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing parameter info 

message: There's a problem where using multiple userboxes may cause the page to no longer a valid XHTML when validating by the W3C XHTML Validator. The reason is the table's id property "id=userboxes" is being redefined for each additional userboxes, and this is not allowed under XHTML 1.0 Specifications.
Perhaps removing that id property altogether would help?
=== FourBlades 06:11, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the id should be made a class instead.  In the XHTML spec, an id can only appear once, but a class can appear any number of times.  However, making the change would require everyone taking advantage of custom CSS to hide userboxes to update their CSS. --Tim1988 18:09, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: So the obvious solution is the addition of the class attribute, broadcast an advance notification of the removal of the id attribute (say 3 months notice); removal of the id attribute at the time specified.  Cain Mosni 12:47, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems in XHTML validation (for multiple userboxes) 

message: Is there any way to give Userboxbreak the same parameters to set as Userboxtop? There are groups of templates that I would like to differentiate by color, and since using Userboxtop isn't an option, as one box slides right under another in IE (though they look fine in FireFox), Userboxbreak needs to be more customizable. I am still leaning how to make templates by practicing on userboxes, so I may be out of my depth on this one. - LA @ 12:09, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Userboxbreak 

message: After some of the recent changes to this template, having no text at the top (to replace "Userboxes") doesn't seem to work anymore.  When I use the parameter toptext= (with nothing after the equal sign), an apostrophe shows up at the top.  When I use toptext="", "" shows up, and when I use just toptext, toptext shows up at the top.  Can't think of any other ways to do it, and I don't understand the way all the code works, so can anyone help me?  Thanks! --Galaxiaad 04:12, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've fixed it. The problem started when the toptext parameter was bolded with wiki markup. When the toptext parameter was blank, the three apostrophes from each side came together, forming '. The apostrophes are interpreted as (correct me if I'm wrong) bold, italics, then one apostrophe of text. I switched the bold and the big tags, so now when toptext is blank, the code reads  and renders correctly. You may need to purge the cache or make a null edit before it displays correctly. Pagrashtak 15:26, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Top text

message: It's nice that the box allows the user to select alignments, but it was clearly originally designed with right alignment in mind, and the margins are fixed at zero, except for the left, which looks all cock-eyed, when the box is left aligned.  Whilst it is on my list of things to do when the case of circular tuits arrives I don't yet know template syntax, but I know what needs to be implemented:
*If the alignment is not "left" there needs to be a style element of "margin-left: 1em"
*If the alignment is not "right" there needs to be a style element of "margin-right: 1em"
That will take care of correct margins for all 3 alignments - left, center, right.  Cain Mosni 12:59, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is one more.  See Template talk:userboxtop#Could the margin-left be reduced when the box is a child of another user box? below.  I like to nest my boxes.  The inner ones need no margin at all. Will (Talk - contribs) 08:41, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Margins

message: Sorry if this sounds like I'm talking down to everyone, but I'd like to remind all editors that this template is widely used. A recent good-faith edit caused numerous problems around various users' pages; when I first noticed it, I thought it was related to a new userbox that I was adding. Then I ran across it on several other editor's pages. When I saw it screw up a page on my userpage that I hadn't modified in a while, I realized where the problem might lie.
Please, if you make any changes (even seemingly innocuous ones, like removing the center tag), use the "What links here" tag and check out a wide sampling of pages to ensure that you didn't accidently break a page. EVula 15:15, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: When did you first notice the problem? I just switched the "align" tag to a CSS float declaration, but it didn't change anything on your page (I also tried wrapping the list on your page with a div tag with a left margin, but that didn't help, either). EVula 02:30, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reminder 

message: I am willing to pass a parameter that defaults to no-child if needed.  I just don't like wasting the space. Will (Talk - contribs) 07:34, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If I don't see a reply before too long, I may create my own variants of , , , and  to solve the problem.  If I do that, they will be listed at User:Will Pittenger/templates. Will (Talk - contribs) 09:26, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm... not sure about the best way to approach this. I'm kind've actually thinking that you might be able to make this happen with the current paramaters available -- see this example (permalink), which I'm guessing isn't quite what you're looking for, but it seems to be a step in the right direction. Luna Santin 03:33, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Hm... might be in over my head, here; haven't done too much with NavFrame, but I suspect that if you're planning to use it, it'll be easier to set it up yourself (instead of using a template) (in part, most of the templates invovled here weren't built with it in mind). Did some fiddling around, things aren't quite working -- permalink, I suspect there's some elaborate conflict between the CSS used in userboxes and the CSS/JS used in NavFrame. In the meantime, you may be able to get some use out of . Luna Santin 09:12, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I made the left margin settable as a parameter. --CBD 22:13, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Could the margin-left be reduced when the box is a child of another user box? 

message: Please add th:แม่แบบ:กล่องผู้ใช้บน for interwiki link. Thanks --Jutiphan | Talk - 05:35, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Luna Santin 08:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  th interwiki 

message: Please add ru:Шаблон:Userboxtop for interwiki link. Thanks... Csahes 00:50, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  th interwiki 2 

message: Aligning the box in the center doesn't work.--Richard (Talk - Contribs) 16:36, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you give an example of source code for what you are trying to do? CMummert · talk 23:03, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

text: It was broken in this revision. A change was made from the deprecated "align" attribute to using a CSS float property, but float doesn't support "center", just "left", "right", and "none". The pure CSS way to center is using "auto" for the left and right margins. As a workaround, you can do extra-css=margin: 0 auto 0.5em auto. The bottom margin is 0.5em because that's what this template currently uses. Mike Dillon 23:19, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was just about to make a similar comment.  I am going to fix the documentation. CMummert · talk 00:12, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can't align center 

message: I just want to let you guys know that rendering under Firefox and Opera (Internet suite) does not work well with these set of templates as it partially covers the first box and other topmost boxes userboxes when using the hide/show feature.  It seems the work for a solution on this problem has been neglected for sometime... like months.  The template works fine under Internet Explorer.  I really want to use this template but I cannot because of this. Getonyourfeet 11:29, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind I found a workaround and it is better... just instead of adding multiple 'div class="NavContent"' sections inside a single "Userboxtop Userboxbottom pair" resulting in multiple hide sections under one single "Userboxtop Userboxbottom pair"... the solution was just to create many multiple "Userboxtop Userboxbottom pairs" for each groupings of selected content... instead of many 'class="NavContent"' groups from the previous idea.  One cool side feature I like is that you can also hide a Userboxtop Userboxbottom pair(s) within another one Userboxtop Userboxbottom pair... Really useful if you want to hide huge volumes of content. Getonyourfeet 14:01, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Firefox better support needed 

message: I would like to add margin-right to this template so one can have the same margin on both sides if one would like it. From this: 
[...]style="margin-left: 1em;; margin-bottom[...]
to this:
[...]style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom[...]
--MrStalker 23:27, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It needs to default to 0, not 1, to preserve the current behavior. Alternatively, you can just use extra-css=margin-right: 1em to get that effect. Mike Dillon 00:03, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In the interest of avoiding creeping featurism, I don't think this change is needed. There is a workaround that doesn't require a change to this template, and in most cases you could just write your own code instead of using this template. CMummert · talk 01:45, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Okey, thx anyway. --MrStalker 09:01, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  margin-right 

message: Can someone give this an id? perhaps id="userboxtop" . Thanks. -Indolences 16:39, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It shouldn't have an id because there can be more than one of them on a page. Why do you want an id? Mike Dillon 16:57, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Yes, the id was recently removed per the section XHTML validation redux above.  You should be able to use the CSS class instead. CMummert · talk 17:59, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh duh I didn't even see the table.userboxes { display: none; } on the template page. Thanks. -Indolences 19:45, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  id= 

message: How can I align normal text next to a userbox. I would like some help. Sean90 03:42, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text 

message: 
I've created :no:Mal:Brukerbokstopp. Please add a interwiki. Nsaa 12:50, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: done. — Carl (CBM · talk) 03:17, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Nsaa 21:02, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Done, although I have yet to move any documentation, I'll get on that in a moment. Nihiltres(t.c.s) 19:02, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  IW 

message: Is it possible to make this a fixed size and include a scrollbar in it? I think I've seen that somewhere... --Gawaxay 18:26, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scrolling 

message: It seems that you can't use the template without at least one '|' -character after the template name, I wrote like:

and it didn't work. LasseS 11:33, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage problems 

message: Can someone please add the collapsable feature to this template, so that it is possible to have the template hidden? Yahel Guhan 06:35, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I know this old but I agree, it would be helpful if someones added a collasible parameter.-TriiipleThreat (talk) 17:17, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Collapsable

message: 
Please move all documentation text (everything between the  tags) onto the subpage  and place the template reference  in its place on . --Dinoguy1000 Talk 01:29, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done - but I used  en lieu de . Nihiltres(t.l) 00:48, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Documentation 

message: Someone please change  to , as the first redirects to the second. —Dinoguy1000 18:45, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done There's no point in changing a heavily used template just to bypass a redirect; it would create work for the servers for no good reason. --ais523 19:19, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Fair enough... I'll have to keep that in mind in the future (and just surreptitiously update such redirects in tandem with other edits ;) ). —Dinoguy1000 19:04, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Documentation 

message: Can an admin please modify font-weight: bold to be normal—I have a use for it where I don't want the header in bold, and if someone wants it in bold they can choose to do so when using the template. Thanks. --Eustress (talk) 04:48, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably not... by now, this template has thousands of uses across Wikipedia that rely on the bolding, so just removing it would result in a lot of breakage. A switch allowing you to disable the bolding would be simple enough to add, though (something along the lines of ). 「ダイノガイ千？！」(Dinoguy1000) 18:33, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Unbold header

message: Could there be a named parameter introduced called edit to this template that, when used, will enable to display an [edit] link to the value of the parameter?
Example, which would be rendered as shown on right:




This could benefit a lot of users, so they can make their userbox collection into a template, with collapsible categories(see mine), and transclude it where-ever they want, and have easy access to editing the template page itself.
Ofcourse it would be nice if you could also make the external-link icon disappear.
I know that it is apparently already possible to have this functionality, because i just showed you an example with it.My intention is to make it easy to use for people who don't know how to get this kind of special functionality using code in wiki-markup + HTML. ⇐⇑©TriMoon™ Talk @ 19:07, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  edit link for use in templates. 

message: Is it possible to add an option for multiple columns (user specified #, or limit to 1–4)? – VisionHolder « talk » 18:16, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd second this request. Carter (talk) 19:32, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple columns 

message: Why does it have to be so confusing? Can It be explained easier?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joseph507357 (talk • contribs) 23:30, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing 

message: There is an extra semicolon at line 1: style="margin-left: 1em;; that probably does not affect anything - still sending an edit request so it is recognized. --ネイ (talk) 05:32, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Done DannyS712 (talk) 05:54, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 20 February 2020 

message: Please apply Special:Diff/958287469 to add new parameter , which would allow look and feel customization of the header. —⁠andrybak (talk) 23:26, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: – looks like it needs more work, but yes, this looks like a good addition to the template, thank you! P.I. Ellsworth  ed. put'r there 01:33, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 22 May 2020 

message: This was raised once back in 2007 but I really think it'd be helpful to have this feature. I'd like to use it for my own userboxes and I don't know how to make one using the extra-css, and I really don't know how templates work but is this possible? Skarmory (talk • contribs) 05:21, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: , you can create collapsible userbox box using template . For more information, see . —⁠andrybak (talk) 09:58, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Skarmory (talk • contribs) 22:05, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collapsable?