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:''For infobox colours, see [[Wikipedia:Infobox colours]]''

An '''infobox''' on [[Wikipedia]] is a consistently-formatted table which is present in articles with a common subject to provide summary information consistently between articles or improve navigation to closely related articles in that subject. (An infobox is a generalization of a ''taxobox'' (from ''[[taxonomy]]'') which summarizes information for an [[organism]] or group of organisms.)

If you make an infobox for a new project, it should be placed on the [[Wikipedia:List of infoboxes/Proposed]] sub-page when it is proposed and moved to the appropriate sub-page of the [[Wikipedia:List of infoboxes|main list]] when it has been implemented.You can choose to use colors in your table. You can use either the same color for all tables in a project, or use a system of coloration (for example, the organism taxobox has different colors for each of the kingdoms). To find more information about what colors can be used, see the article on [[web color]]s.

If you want to redesign an Infobox, please take it up with the appropriate [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|WikiProject]].

An infobox may or may not use the [[m:Help:Template|template]] software feature. Infobox templates are an alternative to static infoboxes; they can be used to create a common look between subject items, with a minimum of coding within articles. See also [[Wikipedia:Infobox templates]].

If your infobox is right-aligned, please consider having it no wider than 1/3 the width of the available page.

==Basic Infobox==

The basic template pattern can be found at [[Template:Infobox]]. This basic template includes the use of optional parameters, compare [[Wikipedia:Conditional tables]].
{| class="infobox bordered" style="width: 25em; text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"
|+ style="font-size: larger;" | '''{{{name}}}'''
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | [[Image:{{{image}}}|300px| ]]<br>{{{caption}}}
|-
! Data 1:
| {{{data1}}}
|-
! Data 2:
| {{{data2|''this text displayed if data2 not defined''}}}
|-
! Data 3 (data hidden if data3 empty or not defined):
| {{{data3|}}}
|-
| colspan="2" style="font-size: smaller;" | {{{footnotes|}}}
|}
<br clear=all>

== Taxobox Example ==
This is an example of a taxobox. See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/taxobox usage]] for full instructions.

{{Taxobox
| color = varied
| name = Domestic Dog
| status = DOM
| image = YellowLabradorLooking.jpg
| image_caption = [[Labrador Retriever]], a breed of domestic dog
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| subphylum = [[Vertebrate|Vertabrata]]
| classis = [[Mammal]]ia
| ordo = [[Carnivora]]
| familia = [[Canidae]]
| genus = ''[[Canis]]''
| species = ''[[wolf|C. lupus]]''
| subspecies = '''''C. l. familiaris'''''
| trinomial = ''Canis lupus familiaris''
| trinomial_authority = ([[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758)
| category =
}}

==See also==
* [[Wikipedia:Infobox templates]]
* [[Wikipedia:List of infoboxes]]
* [[Wikipedia:List of infoboxes/proposed]]
* [[Wikipedia:Infobox colours]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes]]
* [[Template:Infobox]]

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