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This is the {{fmbox}} or header & footer message box template.

It can be used to build message boxes for system messages such as MediaWiki:Sharedupload and MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-anon. It can also be used for header and footer boxes on user pages.

This template works similarly to {{ambox}} and mostly uses the same parameters. The main differences are that this box is 100% wide and only has one colour style.

Simple usage example:

{{fmbox | mesaj = Some text.}}

{{{text}}}

Complex example:

{{fmbox
| imagine     = [[Image:Emblem-question-yellow.svg|40px]]
| style     = background: transparent;
| textstyle = color: red; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;
| mesaj      = The message body text.
}}

{{{text}}}

The default image shown above is mostly for testing and demonstration. In most cases it is more appropriate to use a more specific image or no image at all. These examples use the image parameter to specify an image other than the default image.

{{{text}}}

{{{text}}}

Some other parameter combinations.

{{{text}}}

imagine = [[Image:User-info.svg|40px]] imaginedreapta = [[Image:Nuvola apps bookcase.svg|40px]]

List of all parameters:

{{fmbox
| imagine = none / [[Image:Some image.svg|40px]]
| imaginedreapta = [[Image:Some image.svg|40px]]
| style = CSS values
| textstyle = CSS values
| mesaj  = The message body text.
}}

imagine

No parameter = If no image parameter is given the template uses its default image.

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:

image = [[Image:User-info.svg|40px]]

none = Means that no image is used.

imaginedreapta

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:

imageright = [[Image:Nuvola apps bookcase.png|40px]]

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-top: 1em;

textstyle

Optional CSS values used by the text cell. For example:

textstyle = font-size: 90%; text-align: center;

mesaj

The message body text.

This template currently uses hard coded styles and class names. Later it will only use CSS classes making it easier to skin. (In the meantime it can be skinned by using the "!important" keyword.)

If you need to use special characters in the text parameter then you need to escape them like this:

{{fmbox
| mesaj  = <div>
Equal sign = and a start and end brace { } work fine as they are. 
But here is a pipe {{!}} and two end braces <nowiki>}}</nowiki>. 
And now a pipe and end braces <nowiki>|}}</nowiki>.
</div>
}}

{{{text}}}

Internally this meta-template uses HTML wikimarkup instead of wikimarkup for the table code. That is the usual way we make meta-templates since wikimarkup has several drawbacks. For instance it makes it harder to use parser functions and some special characters in parameters.

Note to admins: MediaWiki does not parse and convert HTML wikimarkup in system messages the same way as it does for normal pages. This means for instance that <br> is not automatically converted to <br /> and missing </td> and </tr> tags are not automatically added. Thus see to that any HTML code you use in system messages are valid XHTML. That is, close all tags that you begin. However, regular wikimarkup works fine in most system messages.

For more technical details see the talk page. Since this template works almost exactly like {{ambox}}, {{tmbox}}, {{imbox}}, {{cmbox}} and {{ombox}} their talk pages and related pages might also contain more details.