Help:Banners
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Web banners are attempt to draw the reader's attention to some short content that the editors feel is important. Since they often occupy a space that by banner ads, their use should be limited as they may be affected by Banner blindness
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Saintapedia several banner options for pages, based on Wikipedia's templates, are listed below. The banners are templates so see adding a template when using VisualEditor.
Ambox - for articles
Ambox is used for the article message box template.
It is used to build message box templates for article pages. It offers several different colours, uses default images if no image parameter is given and it has some other features. Click the Template:Ambox link for more information.
Simple usage example:
{{ambox | text = Some text.}}
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Imbox - for images
Imbox is used for the image message box template.
It is used to build message box templates for file (image) pages. It offers several different colours, uses default images if no image parameter is given and it has some other features. Click the Template:Imbox link for more information.
Simple usage example:
{{imbox | text = Some text.}}
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Some text. |
Cmbox - for categories
Cmbox is used for the category message template.
It is used to build message box templates for category pages. It offers several different colours, uses default images if no image parameter is given and it has some other features. Click the Template:Cmbox link for more information.
Simple usage example:
{{cmbox | text = Some text.}}
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Some text. |
Ombox - for other pages
Ombox is used for other types of pages' message box template.
It is used to build message box templates for pages of the types: User, Wikipedia, MediaWiki, Template, Help, Portal and any new future namespaces. That is, page types not covered by ambox, tmbox, imbox or cmbox. Thus it should not be used for boxes for articles, talk pages, image pages or category pages. It offers several different colours, uses default images if no image parameter is given and it has some other features. Click the Template:Ombox link for more information.
Simple usage example:
{{ombox | text = Some text.}}
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Some text. |
Fmbox is used for the footer & header message box template.
It can be used to build message boxes for system messages. It can also be used for footer and header boxes on user pages. It is a 100% width, unlike other banners. It offers several different colours, uses default images if no image parameter is given and it has some other features. Click the Template:Fmbox link for more information.
Simple usage example:
{{fmbox | text = Some text.}}
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Some text. |