Extension:PortableInfobox

The PortableInfobox extension allows to create portable infoboxes, which can be rendered using clean semantic HTML markup on any skin or platform using easy to understand powerful XML-like markup.

It is a port of Fandom's [https://github.com/Wikia/app/tree/dev/extensions/wikia/PortableInfobox PortableInfobox] extension to the newer MediaWiki versions.

Configuration parameters

 * $wgAllInfoboxesSubpagesBlacklist (array): List of subpages in template namespace to omit by api>wikia:dev:Portable infoboxes|API allinfoboxes query. ( default: [ "doc", "draft", "test" ])
 * $wgPortableInfoboxCustomImageWidth (int): Size of image thumbnails used in infoboxes. ( default: 300)
 * $wgPortableInfoboxUseHeadings (bool): Use heading tags for infobox titles and group headers, it may cause [https://github.com/Luqgreg/mediawiki-PortableInfobox/issues/15 incompatibilites] with other extensions. ( default: true)
 * $wgPortableInfoboxUseTidy (bool): Use remex>Special:MyLanguage/RemexHtml|RemexHtml for validating HTML in infoboxes. ( default: true)

Usage

 * See tags>wikia:c:Help:Infoboxes/Tags|Help:Infoboxes/Tags on Fandom.

  tag
In the 0.3 version, the  tag was introduced in favor of , which still works (see 3>#Aliases|Aliases).

It allows users to embed images, videos, and audio files in the infobox, in the same way as   tag does in the original version.

Attributes

 * - name of the parameter
 * - If set to <tvar|1> </>, it ignores all audio files
 * - If set to <tvar|1> </>, it ignores all images
 * - If set to <tvar|1> </>, it ignores all videos

Aliases

 * - variation of <tvar|1></> tag that allows only audio files
 * - variation of <tvar|2></> tag that allows only images and videos (for backwards compatibility, can be disabled with <tvar|1> </>)
 * - variation of <tvar|1></> tag that allows only videos

User-facing differences from the original version

 * It's based on <tvar|1>Wikia/app@b9fcbe5d6db928e318d64ad0568ec2d09a3f406e</>. There may be some features introduced in the original version at a later date which are absent here.


 * Europa theme was removed.


 * <tvar|1> </> class is applied instead of <tvar|2> </> to the infobox, when no theme is specified.


 * When a <tvar|1></> tag is passed to the infobox with images without captions, file name is used instead of not showing the image.


 * When embedding a video in the infobox additional class  is added to the <tvar|figure></> tag.


 * Videos use <tvar|1></> tags instead of showing video in a modal after clicking a thumbnail.


 * <tvar|1> </> class is no longer present in the <tvar|2> </> tag with a video, instead <tvar|3> </> class is applied to all media elements.


 * <tvar|1> </> classes were changed to <tvar|2> </>.


 * <tvar|1> </> attributes allow more color formats.


 * More HTML tags are allowed in captions.


 * Mobile skin doesn't get separate styling.