Wikipedia:Useful styles

This page documents various CSS elements that are useful to know when working in the article and template namespaces. For information about how to use them, see:

CSS classes

 * wikitable This class represents Wikipedia's favored style for data tables.
 * toccolours This class gives the template borders and colors similar to that of the Table of Contents of a page. Do not use  instead of this, as it risks breaking some scripts.   is not used much anymore, but used to be used for footer templates etc.
 * navbox This class is used on most footer templates (e.g. Regions of the world). See also Template:Navbox.
 * infobox This class is used for infoboxes (e.g. Infobox Settlement).
 * ambox (ambox-image, ambox-notice…) These classes are used to style templates affected by Article message boxes.
 *  messagebox standard-talk This class combination is used to style templates affected by Talk page templates.

Specific styles

 * border-collapse:collapse This style will eliminate 3-d style borders created by the  attribute and collapse them in 1px wide borders. This property will override  ! To define similar whitespace, use the   property (although it is not possible to have both   and   for the same table).

Moving stuff

 * float:right and clear:right These styles are used to move a table to the right-hand side of the screen. Float right is equivalent to  The   code property makes it impossible for the movement to be blocked by another box or picture: the template will automatically move under it.

Margins and sizes

 * margin:0 0 0.5em 1em; This style prevents text from running straight to the template by saving blank space. It should be used on boxes which are floated right (using float: right;).
 * margin:0 1em 0.5em 0; This performs the same function as the style directly above, but should be used for boxes which are floated left (using float: left;).