User talk:DavidAHare

Template Round corners and div classes
On this page Wikipedia:User Page Design Center/Style in the WIKI. You have a section called Show/Hide sections. In that section you have in the code a template call I have tried to find this template to see how the code whas written. I play the game called Fallen Sword on the internet and I have a profile on the WIKI for this game. I am trying to build a menu to put on the top of my pages to cut down the space that my tabs take up at the top and to make it more eaiser to follow. One of the problems is that the people who run the WIKI stopped some of the scripting functions to work. I do not know if these div class="NavFrame", div class="NavHead", and div class="NavContent" will work in the game WIKI either. DavidAHare (talk) 16:38, 16 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm always happy to help. Here's where to find what you are looking for:


 * Round corners. I forgot that was one I created; a couple years ago when I was called User:Go for it!.  Templates can all be found in the "template" namespace.  Just add "Template:" (don't forget the colon), in front of the template name, like this:  Template:Round corners.  That works in both links and searches.
 * The wikicode for classes (that is, the classes not limited to a particular skin) can be found in MediaWiki:Common.css. To find the section you are looking for fast, search (Ctrl-F in Internet Explorer or Firefox) for "thingy".  :)


 * I hope that helps you find everything you are looking for. If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.


 * Good luck.


 * The Transhumanist 22:47, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Help with Menu style.
I wish to 1st thank you for your respose to my topic "Template Round corners and div classes". The Wiki Sysop on the Game Wiki looked at the code on the page and then at another file and told me he would have to rewrite some stuff to be able to use those class in the Game Wiki. He did tell me how to do something similar which I have.

My Question is if I was to post the code for my tab menu could you show me if it is possible to incorporate a collapsible field to where it would be able to have like a drop down list or something similar.

DavidAHare (talk) 20:40, 5 October 2008 (UTC)


 * You're on your own on this one - it would probably take me as long as you to figure this out. Maybe this will help: Elonka has some drop-down boxes on her user page, here with backgrounds, here without.  Maybe you can adapt the code for your purposes.  Good luck.  The Transhumanist  00:37, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

You could look over the best user pages on Wikipedia, to see if any of them have done something close to what you want. Many of them are presented at the User Page Hall of Fame.

Wikipedia has navboxes that collapse. See Template:Navbox.

Hope these resources help. Good luck. The Transhumanist 00:42, 6 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I like the Template:Navbox but they have to many other templ;ates involved to where I can not tell what is and what is not the actual code for each style of the Navboxes. If there was a way to see the navbox code with the parameters with out any documentation or the extra templates for each style I could see if it would work.  I am teaching myself this type of programming and I have to be able to see how things look very simply without any extra stuff added to it. DavidAHare (talk) 01:45, 6 October 2008 (UTC)


 * The instructional stuff is usually at the end, after a the code "noinclude". The rest is the wikicode for the template.  The Transhumanist  02:00, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

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Sincerely,

The Transhumanist 03:18, 6 October 2008 (UTC)