Anyone good with Wiki formatting?

[James McCloud IS John Godot]

I need some help and being a crotchety old shut in, this is where I choose to go. I'm trying to use the #if function around a section of my infobox, below so that if the field is not in use, it does not appear in the infobox, saving space.

|-
{{#if: {{{family}}}| align="center" colspan="4" |
{| class="roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #000000;"
|- align="center"
|'''Family'''
{| class="roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #1c3855;"
|- align="center"
| class="roundy" style="background: #1c3855; border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{{family|}}}
|}
|}
|-}}

But no matter where I insert the code, the result is the same: broken box in which an empty family feed returns an { and a filled family feed returns align="center" colspan="4"

Anyone who can help with get a thousand lap dances or their choice of salad dressing.

[lildude8218]

can you post the entire coding of your infobox? I have my own wiki and i'll try to compare it to some of the infoboxes i'm using. I didn't make any of them myself though.

[James McCloud IS John Godot]

Dec 1, 2010 15:52:43 GMT -5 lildude8218 said:

can you post the entire coding of your infobox? I have my own wiki and i'll try to compare it to some of the infoboxes i'm using. I didn't make any of them myself though.

Yeah, I do a lot of frankensteining myself. I figure it's like a jigsaw, just trying to fit the pieces together. So any help would be, um, helpful.

{| class="roundy" align="right" style="background: #FFFFFF; width: 24em; max-width: 30%; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; border: 3px solid #000000;"
|-
| align="center" colspan="4" |
{| class="roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #F5F5F5;"
|-
| align="center" | <big><big>'''{{{name}}}'''</big></big><br><span lang="ja">'''{{{japanese_name}}}'''</span> ''{{{romaji_name}}}''
|}
|-
| align="center" colspan="4" |
{| class="roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #1c3855;}"
|- align="center"
| {{#if: {{{image|}}}|[[File:{{{name|}}}.png|{{{size|x280px}}}]]<br><small>''{{{caption|Art by Fumi Ishikawa}}}''<br>{{{star}}}</small>
|}
|-
| align="center" {{#ifeq: {{{forme|1}}}|1||colspan="4" }}|
{| class="roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #000000;"
|- align="center"
| '''Gender'''
{| class="roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #1c3855;"
|- align="center"
| class="roundy" style="background: #1c3855; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;" | {{{gender}}}
|}
|}
| align="center" |
{| class="roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #000000;"
|- align="center"
| '''Race'''
{| class="roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #1c3855;"
|- align="center"
| class="roundy" style="background: #1c3855; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;" | {{{race}}}
|}
|}
| align="center" |
{| class="roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #000000;"
|- align="center"
| '''Born'''
{| class="roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #1c3855;"
|- align="center"
| class="roundy" style="background: #1c3855; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;" | {{{birth_date}}}
|}
|}
|-
| align="center" colspan="4" |
{| class="roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #000000;"
|- align="center"
| '''Age'''
{| class="roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #1c3855;"
|- align="center"
| class="roundy" style="background: #1c3855; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF; " | {{{age}}}
|}
|}
|-
| align="center" colspan="4" |
{| class="roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #000000;"
|- align="center"
| '''From'''
{| class="roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #1c3855;"
|- align="center"
| class="roundy" style="background: #1c3855; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF; " | {{{from}}}
|}
|}
|-
{{#if: {{{family}}}| align="center" colspan="4" |
{| class="roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #000000;"
|- align="center"
|'''Family'''
{| class="roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #1c3855;"
|- align="center"
| class="roundy" style="background: #1c3855; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;" | {{{family}}}
|}
|}
|-}}
| align="center" colspan="4" |
{| class="collapsible roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #000000;"
|- class="expandable" align="center"
| '''Voice'''
|- align="center"
|
{| class="roundy" align="center" width="100%" style="background: #1c3855;"
|- align="center"
| class="roundy" style="background: #1c3855; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;" |{{{va}}}
{{{footnotes|}}}
|}
|}
|}

[lildude8218]

That's a hell of a problem.....I have no idea how to fix it, sorry. I would get Family to show up disformed and if i changed any coding in that section, it screwed up the whole box