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{{MoveToMediaWiki}}gghsyhgfThe '''inputbox''' extension is a [[m:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] extension by Erik Möller to add predefined HTML forms to wiki pages. It was originally created for the purpose of adding a ''Create an article'' box to [[m:Wikinews|Wikinews]]. It requires MediaWiki 1.5 and an extensions script (see ''Installation'' below).

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{{MoveToMediaWiki}}gghsyhgfTheThe '''inputbox''' extension is a [[m:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] extension by Erik Möller to add predefined HTML forms to wiki pages. It was originally created for the purpose of adding a ''Create an article'' box to [[m:Wikinews|Wikinews]]. It requires MediaWiki 1.5 and an extensions script (see ''Installation'' below).

== General syntax ==gfdhdInputboxes

Inputboxes are constructed like this:

{| border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" frames="border" rules="all" bgcolor="#ffffff"

|-

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type=box type

parameter1=value

parameter2=valuefhgfdheavalue

</inputbox>

</pre>

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== Box types ==

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{| border="1" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" bgcolor="white" width="79%"

!Type

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|

<inputbox>

type=searchh456search

</inputbox>

|-

| colspan="2" | Generates a search box with a default width of 50 characters. The button labels can be specified, see be3476rylowbelow; defaults [[MediaWiki:Tryexact]] and [[MediaWiki:Searchfulltext]]. The text field specifies the search criteria.

|-

! type=create

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</inputbox>

|-

| colspan="2" | Allows ceruyereatingcreating a new page. The button label can be specified, see below; default [[MediaWiki:Createarticle]]. The text field specifies which page is to be edited.

|-

! type=comment

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type=comment

</inputbox>

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| colspan="2" | Add one or more sections to an existing page, or create a page, with an edit summary that is automatically the same as the (first) new section header. The button label can be specified, see below; default [[MediaWiki:Postcomment]] also used in the sidebar of the "Standard" skin. The text field specifies which page is to be edited.

|}

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== Parameters ==

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!Example

|-

||'''bgcolor='''<br />''All types''<br />&#160;<br />Sets the table background color (HTML color values). Do not uwrtywrqseuse quotes.

|<pre><inputbox>

type=search

bgcolor=#eeeeff

</inputbox></pre>ytr

<inputbox>

type=search

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</inputbox></pre>

<inputbox>

type=createyeryrycreate

width=24

</inputbox>

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type=comment

default=User talk:Eloquence

</inputbox>hrwhwret

|-

||'''preload='''<br />''comment'', ''create''<br />&#160;<br />The page under this title will be preloaded (see below) into the blank editbox when a new page is created.

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type=create

preload=MediaWiki:Editthispage

</inputbox>wetq

|-

|colspan="2"|Enter the title of a non-existent page in the example inputbox above or below, and click "Create article" or "Post a comment" respectively to test this effect.

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|<pre><inputbox>

type=comment

editintro=MediaWiki:MissingcqwerommenttextMissingcommenttext

</inputbox></pre>

<inputbox>

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