Extension:InputBox

The InputBox extension adds already created wikipedialink1>:en:HTML form|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 Create an article box to Wikinews.

Example
Box for starting a new article.

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General syntax
InputBoxes 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 submit button(s) is below the input box. The submit button can be moved to the right by using the line break parameter to eliminate the line break between the input box and the submit button: break=no

Having the submit button to the right is useful for search boxes when search suggestions would otherwise cover up a search button below the search box.

For type=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 create to an existing page simply gives the edit page. In that case preload</> is ignored. Applying <tvar|comment>comment</> for a new page works.

The texts taken from the <tvar|mediawiki>MediaWiki:</tt></> namespace are of course only examples, any existing page can be used for <tvar|editintro>editintro</tt></> or <tvar|preload>preload</tt></>. Unfortunately <tvar|preload>preload</tt></> does not yet work for the link1>Special:Upload</>|Upload summary.

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

<br style="clear:right;">

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> </tt></> tag is written as <tvar|inputbox2>  </tt></> 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>article</tt></>) as spelled out in the button, the second parameter gives the name of the template used to create the item (default: <tvar|tarticle>Template:Article</tt></>).

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