A userbox is a small box that looks like this. You can't eat these.

Userboxes can come in many different styles

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Boxes can have one or two sideboxes

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A userbox is a small coloured box which allow users to add small messages on their user page. It is an extension of the babelboxes used for user's language abilities. Feel free to use these on your user page. The Wikimedia Commons has a large range of icons for use within boxes.

Common uses for boxes include user interests, user skills, technical information, Wikipedia activities, or just for fun. There are four types of userbox templates. A gallery of example boxes is shown below.

You can either create your own userbox using the four templates below, or use the existing userboxes templates.

Box types

Code

Appearance

{{userbox
  |border-c=border color
  |id-c=side-box colour
  |id-s=font size
  |id-fc=font color
  |info-c=main box colour
  |info-s=font size
  |info-fc=font color
  |id=side-box content
  |info=main box content
}}

or {{userbox|side-box colour|main box colour|side-box content|main box content}}

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Standard box

{{userbox-r|side-box colour|main box colour|side-box content|main box content}}

Reverse box

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{{Userbox-2|side-box 1 color|main box color|side-box 1 content|message|side-box 2 content|border color|side-box 2 color}}

Note: If omitted, border color and side-box 2 color default to the same color as side-box 1.

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Double box

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mini

Comprehensive List of Userbox Categories

This list is under construction; if you make new userboxes, please do not add them here. It'd probably be a better idea to add them to Wikipedia:Userboxes/other or Wikipedia:Userboxes/funny and someone will sort them where they belong, unless you know where to put them.

Languages

For real-world languages, see Wikipedia:Babel.

For constructed and non-ISO languages, see Wikipedia:Userboxes/Non-ISO_Languages.

For programming languages, see Wikipedia:Userboxes/Programming_languages.

Places

For country and state userboxes, see Wikipedia:Userboxes/location.

For school userboxes, see Wikipedia:Userboxes/Schools.

Interests

See Wikipedia:Userboxes/Interests

Wikipedia Users

For user category userboxes, see Wikipedia:Userboxes/wikipedia.

For Alignment (role playing games userboxes, see Wikipedia:Userboxes/alignments.

For "Association Of..." userboxes, see Wikipedia:Userboxes/associations. (Examples would be Association of Mergist Wikipedians, Wikipedia CVU, etc.)

For zodiac symbol userboxes, see Wikipedia:Userboxes/zodiac.

Sports

For sports in general, see Wikipedia:Userboxes/sports.

For rugby, see Wikipedia:Userboxes/sports#Rugby.

For soccer/football, see Wikipedia:Userboxes/sports#Soccer.

For the American MLB, see Wikipedia:Userboxes/sports#MLB.

For the American NFL, see Wikipedia:Userboxes/sports#NFL.

For Australian Rules Football, see Wikipedia:Userboxes/sports#Australian_Rules_Football.

Social stances, beliefs, etc.

For religions, see Wikipedia:Userboxes/religion.

For political parties and beliefs, see Wikipedia:Userboxes/politics.

Other userbox stuff

To submit userboxes for categorization, or for userboxes that don't seem to fit in any of the above categories, toss it under the "to be categorized" section of Wikipedia:Userboxes/other.

To view userboxes that are considered humorous, check out Wikipedia:Userboxes/funny.

Grouping userboxes

Userboxes

Template:Userbox wikipedia Template:Userbox wikipedia Template:Userbox browser Template:User Rome Template:User ubx-5

As with Babel, there is a box to group user boxes together. Just make a list of userboxes with {{Boxboxtop}} at the top and {{Boxboxbottom}} at the bottom. Eg., the box to the right is created using the following list:

{{Boxboxtop}}
{{userbox wikipedia|administrator}}
{{userbox wikipedia|welcoming committee}}
{{userbox browser}}
{{User Rome}}
{{User ubx-5}}
{{Boxboxbottom}}