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== Box types ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" frames="border" rules="all" bgcolor="#ffffffwhite" width="8079%"

!Type

!Description

!Example

|---

|'''<font! id="type_search" />type=search'''

|width="30%"|

Generates a search box with a width of 50 characters¹. The button labels can be specified, see below; the defaults are [[MediaWiki:Tryexact]] and [[MediaWiki:Searchfulltext]]. The text field specifies the search criteria.

|

<inputbox>

type=search

</inputbox>

|---

| colspan="2" | Generates a search box with a default width of 50 characters¹. The button labels can be specified, see below; the defaults are [[MediaWiki:Tryexact]] and [[MediaWiki:Searchfulltext]]. The text field specifies the search criteria.

|'''<font id="type_create" />type=create'''

|-

|width="30%"|

! type=create

Allows creating a new page. Note especially the preload= and editintro= options below. The button label can be specified, see below; the default is [[MediaWiki:Createarticle]]. The text field specifies which page is to be edited.

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<inputbox>

type=create

</inputbox>

|---

| colspan="2" | Allows creating a new page. Note especially the preload= and editintro= options below. The button label can be specified, see below; the default is [[MediaWiki:Createarticle]]. The text field specifies which page is to be edited.

|'''<font id="type_comment" />type=comment'''

|-

|width="30%"|

! type=comment

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; the default is [[MediaWiki:Postcomment]]; note that this message is also used in the sidebar of the old "Standard" skin. The text field specifies which page is to be edited.

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<inputbox>

type=comment

editintro=Template:Instructions

</inputbox>

|-

| 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; the default is [[MediaWiki:Postcomment]]; note that this message is also used in the sidebar of the old "Standard" skin. The text field specifies which page is to be edited.

|}

'''Note ¹ :''' The default width doesn't work on old browsers resulting in an input box for one character. Specify a width explicitly (see below), <tt>width=</tt>''n'' works best with ''n'' &lt;= 50 characters for narrow browser windows.

== Parameters ==

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Applying ''create ''&#160;to an existing page simply gives the edit page. In that case <tt>editintro</tt> and <tt>preload</tt> are ignored.

Applying ''comment ''&#160;for a new page works, if the page already exists <tt>editintro</tt> is ignored. The texts taken from the

The texts taken from the <tt>MediaWiki:</tt> namespace are of course only examples, any existing page can be used for <tt>editintro</tt> or <tt>preload</tt>.

Unfortunately <tt>preload</tt> does not yet work for the [[Special:Upload]] summary.

==Caveats==

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[[Category:MediaWiki extensions|Inputbox]]