Extension:InputBox

The InputBox extension adds already created HTML forms to wiki pages.

Users can “complete” a form (entering text, selecting menu items, etc.) by entering text into the box.

InputBox was originally created by Erik Möller for the purpose of adding a  box to Wikinews.

Example
Box for starting a new article.

Result


General syntax
Input boxes are constructed like this:

The type parameter is mandatory.

All other parameters are optional.

preloadparams[] can appear more than once.

Box types
The default location of the “” button(s) is below the input box.

The “” button can be moved to the right by using the line break parameter to eliminate the line break between the box and the button:  .

Having the “</>” button to the right is useful for search boxes when search suggestions would otherwise cover up a search button below the search box.

For <tvar|search2> </>, the default location for the search button is to the right.

Currently, it does not seem to be possible to add other parameters to this type of input box.

This search box searches the entire wiki that it is placed on.

Parameters
Applying <tvar|create>create</> to an existing page simply gives the edit page.

In that case <tvar|preload> </> is ignored.

Applying <tvar|comment>comment</> for a new page works.

The texts taken from the <tvar|mediawiki> </> namespace are of course only examples, any existing page can be used for <tvar|editintro> </> or <tvar|preload> </>.

Unfortunately <tvar|preload> </> does not yet work for the special>Special:Upload</>|Upload summary.

Alignment
If you want to create an inputbox on the right side of the page, do something like:

<div style="float:; width:42em">

Parser function
Using InputBox in a template

In order to create many similar input boxes, InputBox can be used in a template.

However, passing template parameters to InputBox parameters only works if the <tvar|inputbox> </> tag is written as <tvar|inputbox2> </> inside the template.

The following example is a template to create a new wiki page from a named template:

When instantiating the template, the first parameter gives the item that is created (default: <tvar|article> </>) as spelled out in the button, the second parameter gives the name of the template used to create the item (default: <tvar|template> </>).

E.g., the code for an input box to create a new project from a project template might look like this: