Help:Information boxes

Infoboxes are like fact sheets or sidebars in magazine articles; designed to present a summary of the topic of the page. They present important points in an organized and quickly readable format. Infoboxes are generally made using templates, to create consistency across a community.

Fandom has developed a consistent way to code infoboxes, called Portable Infoboxes, to enable them to display well across different devices, which this page details. There are no changes to how you use an infobox on an article — instead, the changes affect how it is written on a template page. Fandom considers use of Portable Infoboxes to be standard for their communities, and safe and stable for common practical use.

A tool to help with the migration of existing infoboxes has also been created.

How to add an infobox to an article
You can add an infobox to an article the same way as you would any other template, either via the editor's built-in tools, or through the editor's source mode. In the VisualEditor, Portable Infoboxes can quickly be inserted via the Infobox option on the 'Insert' dropdown.

Meanwhile, in source mode, you would generally start by copying the syntax from the template's documentation (normally found towards the bottom of the template's page) and pasting it into an article, changing the words after the equals signs to provide the desired information. For example: