Template:Sandbox infobox

A scratch pad for designing new infoboxes. It looks exactly like the real vertical infoboxes (Species, Resource, Organization and so on), but you type every value yourself, so no data pipeline or Lua is involved.

Use it to storyboard a new or changed infobox on a sandbox or user page. When the design is agreed, a developer turns it into a real, data-driven infobox. Don't use it on article pages. Every page that uses it is listed in Category:Pages using Sandbox infobox.

Example

{{Sandbox infobox
|title    = ''Melanoplus differentialis''
|subtitle = Differential grasshopper
|theme    = species
|image    = Species icon.png
|caption  = Placeholder image

|header1  = Taxonomic classification
|label2   = Family:
|data2    = [[Acrididae]]
|label3   = Genus:
|data3    = [[Melanoplus]]

|header4  = Geography
|label5   = Native countries:
|list5    = [[Canada]]; [[Mexico]]; [[United States]]
|data6    = A centred row with no label

|header7  = Conservation status
|image8   = Species icon.png
|caption8 = Placeholder status graphic
}}

Melanoplus differentialis Differential grasshopper
Placeholder image
Taxonomic classification
Family:	Acrididae
Genus:	Melanoplus
Geography
Native countries:
Canada Mexico United States
A centred row with no label
Conservation status
Placeholder status graphic

The top of the box

Parameter	Description
title	The bold title bar. Defaults to the page name. Use ''italics'' for scientific names.
subtitle	Optional. Smaller text inside the title bar.
theme	Colour scheme: species (the default), organization, resource, geography, project or user.
image, caption	Optional. The main image under the title. The caption appears when you hover over the image.

The body: numbered lines

Each number is one line of the box. Lines appear in number order, and numbers may skip, so you can leave gaps (10, 20, 30 …) to make room for later insertions. The type of each line depends on which parameter you fill in for that number:

You write	You get
header5	A coloured section heading
subheader5	A lighter sub-heading
label5 + data5	A two-column row: label on the left, value on the right
data5 on its own	A centred row across the full width
label5 + list5	A heading with a bulleted list under it. Separate items with semicolons (;). Lists longer than 5 items collapse behind "Show more"; change that with list5_threshold.
image5 + caption5	An image partway down the box, e.g. a status graphic

If a number has more than one type filled in, only the first in this table is used.

Colours

The theme sets all the colours, but you can override the title bar and headers. Give a hex code (#4a7a3a) or a colour name (teal). The box adds its usual top-to-bottom shading for you.

Parameter	Changes
title_color, title_text_color	The title bar's background and text
header_color, header_text_color	Every header
header5_color, header5_text_color	Just header 5. Overrides header_color.

{{Sandbox infobox
|title              = Colour test
|title_color        = #2f4a6d
|header_color       = #6d8fb8
|header1            = Uses header_color
|label2             = Row:
|data2              = Value
|header3            = Its own colour
|header3_color      = #f2d16b
|header3_text_color = #333333
}}

Colour test
Uses header_color
Row:	Value
Its own colour

If text is hard to read on a light background, set a dark text colour.

Tips

• Keep labels to one or two words ("Regions:", not "Administrative units of the region:"). Put the detail in the value. Longer labels wrap onto a second line.
• For lists or long values, use labelN + listN rather than labelN + dataN. The label then gets its own line and the value uses the full width of the box.
• Values can contain links and other wikitext. To put a literal pipe character in a value, write {{!}}.
• To copy an existing infobox, list the rows you see on a real page, then add, remove or reorder them.
• There are numbers 1 to 100.