I substitute my infoboxes because that's easier for me.
I can't for the life of me figure out how to change the alignment without basically creating an entirely new infobox to call upon, which would be super annoying.
I've tried adding |align ="left" and |style =leftto the infobox afterward and nothing changes. What can I do? i also do not want to edit common.css
If you use parameters in the infobox but the infobox isn't doing anything with them, it will change nothing...
If you're copying templates from wikipedia, see Manual:Importing Wikipedia infoboxes tutorial
they're not copied, no. completely built from scratch.
I have a CSS override so that they all align=right but I want some of them to align=left, and that's my problem.
If you are using local CSS overrides, than I assume those CSS rules are implemented on-to the Infobox through a class. In which case, can't just two separate classes be made, one for left-alignment and the other for right-alignment?
They can, how would I accomplish that?
To make it clear: i have one page that I am attempting to use multiple infoboxes on and it looks awful with all of them on the same alignment. I want to change it so that every other box is aligned left.
How exactly are you accomplishing, as you mentioned above, "align=right" for your Infoboxes?
I add:
.infobox { float: right; }
to Common.css and that forces all infoboxes to the right, which I need otherwise I can't place them where I need them to be. This is great for the vast majority of pages where I want a right-aligned infobox, but in some pages I need left aligned. I can't just remove the common.css since that will force all of my infoboxes back to the left.
So now I'm stuck since I need to be able to fluctuate certain infoboxes to the left.
On the table or div of the infobox, add style="float:{{{align|right}}};"
then add align=left on the templates you want it to be left-aligned. You can remove the .infobox { float: right; } style
Or add .infobox-float-left { float: left; } as a class, and add that class to the infoboxes you want on the left.
You should also add clear: right; to your infobox class, so your infoboxes stay to the right of the page, rather than stacking up next to each other.
i can't tell if i just have no idea what i'm doing or maybe i've set up templates completely wrong.
I tried following @Ciencia Al Poder's suggestion but as usual, I still can't get my templates to do anything but be EITHER stuck permanently on the left or permanently on the right.
To my Template:Character page (the one I use most often) I added:
| style="float:{{{align|right}}} but removed the ; escape since that didn't make sense to me (but I later added it back and it made no difference)
and then I removed the
.infobox { float: right; }
from my MediaWiki:Common.css
but without that, my templates simply do not obey any float or align properties.
I didn't follow the other suggestion since i dont want tom mess with classes that I don't understand
Be sure style="float:{{{align|right}}}" is on the table, not on a column
How do I ensure it's on a table versus a column?
Currently I substitute, so I'm not sure it's being displayed as a table. I'm still very inexperienced with infoboxes, sorry!
See Help:Tables to see what's a table, and what's a column (or more correct, a table cell, which is what I wanted to say)
