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Table within a scrollbox?

Resolved
Cureden 13:14, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

I have a scrollbox on my userpage, and I would like to replace the contents with a table. Is this possible? This is an example of what I've tried:

{{scrollbox|height=50px|text=
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Header 1
! Header 2
|-
| cell 1.1
| cell 1.2
|-
| cell 2.1
| cell 2.2
|}
}}

but all I get is:

{

Is it possible to embed a table in a scrollbox? Thanks. --Bruce1eetalk 08:26, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Actually, I've since done away with the scrollboxes on my userpage altogether, but I'd still like to know if a table can be embedded in a scrollbox. --Bruce1eetalk 11:25, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
There is another way to make a scrollbox by using <div> tags instead of the {{scrollbox}} template (see Wikipedia:User_page_design_center/Style#Scroll_boxes) and that does work.
header 1 header 2 header 3
row 1, cell 1 row 1, cell 2 row 1, cell 3
row 2, cell 1 row 2, cell 2 row 2, cell 3
This style of scrollbox comes up the same as the other, as far as I know. Cureden 13:21, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you. I'll file this away for future reference. BTW I saw the "Scroll boxes" section in Wikipedia:User page design center/Style, but I just assumed it used {{scrollbox}}. I should have looked at the code! --Bruce1eetalk 14:42, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Alignment

I need help with the alingment of my user page can some one please help me. to see the problem go to my user page--Dcheagle (talk) 23:14, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

I think I fixed it by adding two <br/> tags. Cureden 15:22, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Its still not alinging right but its nearly fixed.--Dcheagle (talk) 20:05, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

These symbols seemed to do the trick in place of the two break tags: {{-}} GeorgeLouis (talk) 20:58, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you that fixed the problem.--Dcheagle (talk) 22:51, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Wha' hoppen?

What happened to my Talk Page? I tried to make a new User Page (the old one had no content), and now my old Talk Page is gone. Yours in puzzlement, GeorgeLouis (talk) 07:42, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Your user page redirects to your talk page, so when you clicked on your userpage, it brought you to your talk page, which you then blanked. I've deleted the redirect and restored your talk page. ;) Cureden 12:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Cool. How did that Redirect occur? GeorgeLouis (talk) 14:19, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Looking at the page history, it was redirected in 2006. I have no idea why. :D Cureden 14:36, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, thanks for checking. GeorgeLouis (talk) 17:25, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Delete User subpages

Can you help me about how can request to delete all my subpages see here, thanks.--KSAconnect 18:33, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Paste the coding {{db-g1}} on each page. That'll put the template {{db-g1}} on them, and an admin will come along shortly to delete them. Cureden 18:42, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Mysterious font size problem

I am trying to make the font size in the userboxes on my userpage draft look like those on my actual userpage. Myself and others have tried and tried to figure out what is setting the size of the font but we can't seem to work it out. How can I make them the same? —Sean Whitton / 20:35, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Current time?

I'm trying to get my user talk page to display the current time, as it is to me, which is UTC -6 year round. I've tried {{Utc | -6}} which works fine, but doesn't update, and I can't find anything else which works. {{Time}} has a CST time zone, but it automatically adds daylight saving time. Help? orangefreak33 17:49, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

It'll update, but only if the page cache is updated. I have the same issue by the way. Nja247 09:13, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
So how often is the page cache updated? orangefreak33 15:28, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
It's a browser setting as far as I'm aware. Nja247 16:13, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Ok, it appears to be working (ish) now...I'm not sure what I had before, but I came back the next day and it still had the same day's time! orangefreak33 18:43, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Userbox

I was experiment with customization, and I ran into a small issue: Userboxes. As you can see by my user page, I managed to jury-rig a box. Does anyone know how to add more fields that display? Linuxzarth (R) 00:04, 13 August 2009 (UTC)


I have to say I'd really like to know, too. I've been trying to find a guide to userboxes for the last hour or so. A month or so ago I saw a user's page where he even had his nationality in his userbox. I'd really love to know how to do that. I think it would be awesome if someone could create a guide to userboxes, and all of the elements that can be used in them.

--Aelyanariah (talk) 13:36, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi. There is a guide at WP:Userboxes that I think might help you, it has a section on creating new userboxes along with a fair amount of other information. Vancouver Outlaw (Speak) 23:38, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Can we get a user box (or can I create one) for the following dog breed: Lakeland Terrier ?Carmarg4 (talk) 16:44, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

How to create category page in my userspace

I would like to try to use a modified sort key to create the following category page in my userspace "wildfires in california with modified sort key" Is this the way I should do it: To start a page called "User:Mfstelmach:category:wildfires in california with modified sort key", type in the box below. When you are done, preview the page to check for errors and then save it. I wanted to ask before I tried creating it. The following category already exists "Wildfires in California" Thanks, Mfstelmach (talk) 20:50, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

You can't, and since category pages are intended for administrative and organizational purposes only, you're not allowed to. ResMar 14:25, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Userbox creation displays the wrong user

I logged in securely (https) and tried to create my first userbox but the namespace displays 'User:Java7837/userboxing/', a banned user. How is this possible?Ineuw (talk) 01:50, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Dunno. Try clearing your cache. You logged onto the secure server? Maybe it has something to do with that. Try logging on regularly. ResMar 14:23, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Confirmed User

Hi. Can an admin please make me a confirmed user, so that I can upload a couple of fair use pix (that can be uploaded to wp, but not wiki commons)? This is time sensitive, as it relates to a band that is up for an 2009 MTV Video Music Award in a few days. Many thanks.--VMAsNYC (talk) 07:11, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Um, first of all this page is for userpage technical questions, not administrative stuff. For that go to the Administrator's Notice Board. Second of all getting autoconfirmed in impossible to duplicate so an admin can't help you there. You just have to edit until you get confirmed. ResMar 13:35, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
The correct place to go is not WP:AN but WP:RFPERM. Secondly, it is possible to duplicate the autoconfirmed permission (this is called confirmed) but it is rarely granted. All you really have to do is make 10 edits (wherever), and wait four days to become autoconfirmed. Intelligentsium 23:40, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
Do I look like someone interested in administration here? ResMar 03:23, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Trouble with div tags

Take a look at my userpage, near the bottom I've got a collage image that I'm trying to get a quote to run across the bottom of, right now I can't get them to align, after nearly 100 edits, heh. Any help would be very appreciated, and rewarded with being able to demand any wish of me as though I were your personal genie :) Sherurcij (speaker for the dead) 14:18, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

I've isolated the problem image out to User:Sherurcij/test for right now, I want it right-aligned, with the text running along the bottom. Any help, again, genie-powers. Sherurcij (speaker for the dead) 14:57, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Nav bar

I would like to add a simple nav bar to by user page that can be used to take you to by talk, My subpages and my Contrubutions. But I have know idea how to do that can i get some help for this.--Dcheagle (talk) 00:50, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Tried my best. Sherurcij (speaker for the dead) 01:01, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
I like it I'm going to mess with it some to change some things but it looks great. Thanks.--Dcheagle (talk) 01:03, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Text Alignment Problems

I am currently building my new userpage in my Sandbox. So far it is extremely complicated (to me) and I barely understand the formatting. If you go to the Sandbox, you can see my first sentence doesn't actually go to the end of the space. I was wondering if anyone could fix this, or even slightly simplify my page, because I know it can be a lot simpler and I've spent hours trying to fix this small problem. Thanks, Forentitalk 11:42, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

 Fixed Btilm 18:05, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Help me figure out how to remove this white border

On my user page, there is some white border around my image and userbox section. I can't figure out what's causing it! Could someone let me know how to fix it? Thanks. —Mike Allen 08:16, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

I see you've fixed it for your image, but not for the userbox section. The white border is there because it's default for the {{Userbox}} template. You need to use some CSS to alter it, as suggested here: Template:Userboxtop. Judging by your user page, that's probably all the help you need with that question, but do say if not! Maedin\talk 12:54, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Deletion of accounts

Can an admin assist to delete this account and Powerful's account? Thank you very much.-ShaStaLee

We can not delete accounts, only userpages. See Wikipedia:Account deletion#Deleting an account. -- œ 09:18, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Help Centering text

Is there a way that i can center text on my user page.--Steam Iron 02:41, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

I think you've answered your own question, going by the centred text on your user page, :) Maedin\talk 12:26, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Table issues

I have recently started using tables to format my userpages, and I'm experiencing a few problems. The first one is that on this page I have 3 boxes that are very unevenly balanced. I would like it for the bottom of the boxes to meet at the same line, if that is possible and for the two right boxes to spread out a bit more in the process. The second problem is the background colour of those tables - as you can see, there is a white colouring outside the boxes - how can you change that colour? Any help with either of those problems would be very greatly appreciated. Thanks, Forentitalk 07:05, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

I'm using the Chrome browser and there's a fair chance that your user page doesn't appear exactly the same for me as it does for you, so take what I say with a pinch of salt!
The easy part first: the background of the table can be changed using the help given here: Help:Table#Color; scope of parameters. I tried it on your page and it worked (not sure if it looks nice though; as far as I know there isn't any way to smooth the edges).
I'm not sure if I understand what you mean when you say you want the two right boxes to spread out more; I assume you'd like them to not be sat on top of each other with their borders turning into one big border (that's how it looks for me, anyway). You can do two things, as far as I know; if you just put two returns between the two div containers, they will separate a certain distance. If that isn't as much as you want or is too little, you can use margins (which, by the way, might come in handy many times over, elsewhere). In your bottom (time) div box parameters, add margin-top:50px; and change the pixels to suit.
I am not sure what you mean by wanting your boxes to meet at the same line on the bottom, but I think what you can do is use valign="top" to get them all starting on the same line and then adjust the heights to ensure they finish at the same points. I'm using that on my user page, by the way, if you want to see an example of how that works and how I got mine evenly spaced.
Hope at least some of that helped! Maedin\talk 12:17, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Firstly, thanks a lot - you obviously put a lot of work into helping me. To respond,

  • Basically, is there any way to make the background transparent, so that if someone has a different skin, it will still be clear. I could just make the background colour the normal background colour throughout Wikipedia, but if someone had a different skin, it wouldn't show up well.
  • The other two problems are basically the same problem - I have made a hidden diagram below - you will have to go into edit view to be able to see it properly.

Basically, I want the bottom two boxes to end at the same place. When this happens, I think the right two boxes will be able to spread out more, so the text can be viewed better. Thanks again and heres the link again. Forentitalk 12:50, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Okay, your containers currently have background:White;—just change this to background:transparent;. I'll be back in a moment, hopefully with the answer to the other, we'll see! Maedin\talk 12:58, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, I should have mentioned that you can do the same for the table, style="background: transparent;" (as shown on the table help page). But I don't know if you would need to alter that as well as the containers, you'd have to test, sorry! Maedin\talk 13:02, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
I don't think I have the full answer you're looking for; I'm not even sure if there is one. I know that you can force alignment at the top, or at the bottom. I think that using position:absolute and/or position:relative you can get it to work but I'm not sure how. In any case, I can see you've added the valign and that it's worked; now you just need to expand the height of the first box until it meets with wherever you want the bottom of the third green box to be (or vice versa). Maedin\talk 13:16, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
I'm afraid I am going to have to turn in for the night - I don't know what time it is where you are. I would like to greatly thank you for the help you have given me so far, and hope that we can find a solution to the last problem. I have tried a variety of things with no luck. Thanks again. Forentitalk 13:28, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
I made a small change to add a height for the first box; if you don't like it or it doesn't work for your browser, just revert it, :) I'm sure there's a better answer than this but I don't know what it is. Maedin\talk 13:37, 24 April 2010 (UTC)



User Page

I want to make my page more attractive but CAN NOT figure out how to do borders and a different font. Could someone tell me how please? Homework2 pass a notesign! 15:29, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi, have you already looked here: Wikipedia:User page design center/Style? Would be happy to help, but it would be beneficial to know if you have already looked at the available help pages or not, :) Maedin\talk 15:38, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Opacity filter

Doesn't seem to work for the userboxes. Am I using the wrong script? -Reconsider! 09:54, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Can you give me an example? I used them for a Christmasy page a while back: [1]. ...Oh crud they're not working anymore? Maybe it has something to do with IE...wierd. ResMar 23:42, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia help forums

Help

I doubt it but is there any way that i can hide my coding for my page? Or at least keep from people "copy" and pasting the codes? The page i want to do this on is located here. You can reply here as i am watching the page. Thanks alot :) (CK)Lakeshadetalk2me

There may be some tips and tricks.. I don't know if it's possible, but if anyone would know it would be User:Jack Merridew.. He is a wiz at wiki-coding, html, and userpage design. Try asking at User talk:Jack Merridew. -- œ 20:41, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Alright, thanks for you help :) (CK)Lakeshadetalk2me 02:34, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Restore

Hi, I created an account some years ago (Christmas 2006) but I never used it. Today I'd like to use it but the page has been deleted (User:Dunderklumpen). I can't recreate the page and I can't loggin. Could you please resore the account ? I'd be thankful, I don't find anything about it on the deletion log (maybe it's too old). Thanks - If you want you can find me on the French Wikipedia as Utilisateur:Dunderklumpen - (let's talk) - 21:30, 15 October 2010 (UTC) - updated - 19:40, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Can you help me align this template, not aligning as said would. 173.49.140.141 (talk) 14:06, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Can you be more specific where you would like it aligned? To align it at the right side of the page use:
{{Vandalism information|align=right}} -- œ 20:54, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Logo and page re-design

Could someone please make me a "Socks 01" logo for my user page? Thanks. Any design would be great but make sure it is yellow. Maybe a re-design of my whole page could be done as well. I'm stuck for ideas. Help would be appreciated.  Socks 01  02:32, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Need some help

User:Dcheagle/Userboxes/OCUserbox

Its not really about my page but about something on my page. On the page of the above link there is a user box I made that isnt working right when I go to put it next to another user-box its border surrounds it(the one on the page above). I have a lot of codeing knowledge but for some reason I cant for the life of me see whats wrong I have posted some words on the page to show you what it does if some one wont mined taking a look see if they can find whats cause it would really help.

P.S: sorry if this is the wrong place for this.--SteamIron 22:54, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

border box

Hi all, I have this box that I'm trying to put as a title/navbar sort of thing. I want it to say my username in black font somewhat larger than the other text at the top, with the icons selected as navigation. Also if the color theme could match that would be awesome. Problem with it now: The border is hitting my main text box, and the inner border only extends to 80% (until the user sidebar). Any help would be awesome. Please use this page for the example: User:TheFSaviator/Sandbox TheFSAviator ( TC ) 05:09, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

pictures as border of a box

Instead of colors, how do I use pictures as borders in a box, for example image:Cscr-featured.svg? -- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 13:29, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

One more question: Why is the numerical list here not left-aligned? Thank you.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 13:44, 18 January 2011 (UTC)


Altering a Title on a page

How do I alter the main title of a page?

Cosmikos (talk) 05:10, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Cosmikos. There's a few ways of doing it: however, I must warn that completely modifying the title of your userpage so that it is misleading, or doing any such modification to anything other than your own userspace, will probably be frowned upon. Check out User:Sonia/draft for an example; the title has been changed to read "List of New Zealand composers".
That was created by using
<div id="title-override" class="topicon" style="float: left; position: absolute; width: 100%; display:none"><div style="background: white; font-size: 200%; position:relative; margin-top:-5px; padding-top: 3px; padding-bottom:3px; ">List of New Zealand composers</div></div>
Another way to do it is to use {{DISPLAYTITLE}}; this is more limited in scope, and probably more accepted. It's mainly used to format a title, but can hide parts of it: For example, my userpage has "Sonia" in pink italics. This was created with
{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="color:#C09; font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="display:none">User:</span>''Sonia''</span>}}
Hope this helps! sonia 08:40, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the speedy reply, it is much appreciated. I only want to change one letter in the title, from lower to higher case. No major changes to the title at all.

Cosmikos (talk) 09:45, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

  • At the top of every page just to the right of "View history" and the "watch this page" star, you should see a pull-down list - a bit silly 'cos for you it only has one entry: "Move". See also Help:How to move a page. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 10:31, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
  • Well he's asking at the userpage design center help page so it's reasonable to assume he wanted a userpage design. Unless he wants to change his username completely then moving the page won't do, he would need Wikipedia:Changing username. -- œ 18:23, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
  • Ah, right. Cosmikos, if you want to change the first letter of your username on your userpage to lowercase, then {{lowercase title}} will work just as well without the lines of code :) If, as the others have noted, what you want is to move a page so that the title is different and does not just appear so, then yes, Help:How to move a page is the correct place to look; if you want to change your username, then WP:CHU. sonia 03:06, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

I have a problem relating to the same thing. I copied and pasted the code that Sonia uses, but for some reason the font only shows up differently under the Comic Sans MS font. When I try either Astur, Banco, Caslon Antique, Jim Crow, or Neuland font, (which are fonts that I like) it only shows up as the same obscure font (I have no idea what font it is, all I know is that it's always the same font). What am I doing wrong? B.T.W. I left it with the Comic Sans Impact font for now. Lighthead þ 09:18, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

I think I might have already figured it out myself. Lighthead þ 22:07, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

My user page

Well, I'm really not pleased how my user page looks, but I have no idea how to redesign it. If anyone can help me, I'll be very grateful. --Sundostund (talk) 15:52, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

I also want to have my userboxes posted in a different way then they are now. If anyone has some suggestions about that, I'll appreciate that. --Sundostund (talk) 11:09, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

New messages

Hi, I have got a note from a bot in http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:78.55.254.168 . I have read this message. But now I often see a brown colored note: You have new messages, although there are no new messages. Is there a chance to stop this nonsense? Regards 78.55.254.168 (talk) 18:28, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Try actually clicking on the link in the text "You have new messages", then Purge your cache (push Ctrl-Shift-R in Firefox) and it should go away. -- œ 16:11, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Simple userbox help

If you look at my talk page, there's one centered userbox. I want to put one more userbox directly under it. It seems like it should be simple enough, but I can't figure it out. How would I go about doing this? Swarm X 05:44, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

I made an attempt, was that what you wanted? -- œ 21:46, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
That's what I wanted, but it seemingly doesn't work with any (or some) other userboxes. I replaced your example with another userbox, and it doesn't show up the same way. I don't quite understand what makes the first userbox center just fine, but not any others (I ripped it from someone). Swarm X 22:52, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
That's it, Thank you. Swarm X 23:54, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Userbox mess

Hi! I just discovered userboxes. I already have many and plan to add a few more to my user page (I'm still in the process of reviewing the gallery to pick my choices).

For reasons unknown to me blank spaces appear out of nowhere as if there were line breaks sending the following userbox to the line below and leaving a tabulation space before it. I have now idea why or how to handle it.

I'd like to have a block of 3-userbox-wide lines at the top of my page. I'd appreciate if someone would explain me how to handle this, as I plan to add more userboxes in the near future and it wouldn't be cool if I have to bother you again with the same problem after I added more. Asinthior (talk) 17:35, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Me again. I've been looking at the gallery of featured user pages and I think I rather have column with all my userboxes on the left hand side of my user page. How do I do that?Asinthior (talk) 18:00, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
Me yet again. So I copied the sidebar from a user page that had it and managed to neatly put my userboxes there. No my problem is that all the text is at the very bottom of the page, while I would want it to be next to the sidebar. Any ideas how to manage that? Asinthior (talk) 23:57, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello. Do you mean between them?  Hazard-SJ  ±  04:29, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Userpage and {{Scroll box}}

On User:Albacore/Userpage, how would I make the DYKs scroll box align right under the header, like under the "Articles created" subheader? Albacore (talk) 16:15, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Allignment

I want to allign the photos and clock along the bottom of my user page but cant work out how. Warburton1368 (talk) 19:01, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Is this what you wanted?--♫Greatorangepumpkin♫Share–a–Power[citation needed] 19:56, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Its ok and i like that but what i really was looking for was them to be alligned right along the bottom of the page like the user boxes are alligned along the top with my text in between. Warburton1368 (talk) 15:21, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
 Done using css code. The Transhumanist 01:10, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
The code is |style="vertical-align:bottom;     The Transhumanist 05:42, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

collapsable items that don't fill up the page horizontally

On User:Cloveapple I'm looking for ways to collapse sections of text without having a bar that runs all the way accross the page. I just want the colored bars to stop short of the column of userboxes on the right. I'd rather not set the collapsable stuff as precise pixel width since I don't know what screen width other people have. I copied a NavFrame example and put it on my page to show where I'm trying to get the collapse effect. On User:Cloveapple you can see the lavendar stripe all accross the page saying "my searches" in the spot where I would want to put a few such sections. As you can see it's too broad and covers userboxes. Suggestions? Cloveapple (talk) 19:56, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:NavFrame, you may just need to add a "width" parameter. -- œ 13:58, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. I tried multiple methods and finally got a NavFrame method to work the way I wanted (in the Orange search bar on my page).
I've still got a question though. I'm puzzled though why the collapsetop template which I also tried (in the Yellow searches bar) doesn't quite work. I could get the collapsetop to accept a percentage width and it's the right size, but it keeps positioning itself lower than my column of right-aligned user boxes that shouldn't be affecting it. Cloveapple (talk) 21:48, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
Both the orange bar example and the puzzling yellow bar example are on the user page. Cloveapple (talk) 01:50, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
Finally got it to work using a table. :-D Cloveapple (talk) 18:55, 31 August 2011 (UTC)