TemplatesforTeams Code Documentation

Overview

This page documents the templates available for iGEM teams to use. The templates use HTML to present information and CSS to style the content.
There are 3 styles available:

Template A

Template B

Template C

Templates

Palettes

Template A


#000000	#565656	#24B694	#59BF92	#E8E8E9	#FFFFFF

Template B


#0E232F	#EE3E53	#F4B248	#E8D5B7	#A7A9AB	#EEEDEA

Template C


#28221E	#DB1E39	#14747D	#22BCB9	#F4EFD8	#FFFFFF

Here are some websites that can help you create your own palette:

HTML and CSS

We strongly recommend using html rather than wiki code. HTML is highly flexible and is supported on almost every browser.

HTML

To start using html in your wiki page, you simply have to open a < html > tag:

		<html>
			************** HTML code can be placed here **************
		</html>

Wiki code can be used for specific things, like calling a template or creating a table for your team parts, to make a "pause" in your HTML code, you can briefly close and open the < html > tag:

		</html>
			************** Wiki code can be placed here **************
		<html>

CSS

CSS will provide styling for your HTML elements, make sure you place CSS on the beginning of your code. To open a CSS tag, simply write:

	<style type="text/css">
		************** CSS code can be placed here **************
	</style>

Creating a new wiki page

Creating a new wiki page is very easy. Simply type the name of the page in your url bar. Be sure to create every page inside your team's name space. The following line creates a page in the 2015 iGEM server, under the Team Example namespace with the page name "ProjectResults".

https://2015.igem.org/Team:Example/ProjectResults

Applying templates

To apply the template to your page, use the following code:

		{{TeamTemplateA}}
		<html>	

				************** Your html content will be placed here **************

		</div></div>
		</html>

Call the template you wish to apply to the page - in this case we are calling TeamTemplateA.
Open an < html > tag- this tells the page that the code in between tags will be html.
This is where you will write the content for your page.
Close the < div > tags - In the template, #contentContainer and #mainContainer were created, this marks where they end.
Close the < html > tag - this is the end of the page.

Editing the menu

The menu for wiki exists inside your team's template. You can add more menu items and submenus items and link them to other pages.

Adding menu items

Go to the #menuContainer and add < li > item to your < ul > list.

<a href=" link "><li>MENU ITEM 1</li></a>

Your menu list should look like this

		<div id="menuContainer">
			 <ul>
				<a href=" link "><li> MENU ITEM 1</li></a>

				<a href=" link "><li> MENU ITEM 2</li></a>

			 </ul>
		 </div>

Adding submenu items

To create submenu items you will need to create a list inside an existing list item.

		<div id="menuContainer">
			 <ul>
				<a href="#"><li> MENU ITEM 1</a>
            				<ul>
						<a href=" link "><li> SUBMENU ITEM 1</li></a>
						<a href=" link "><li> SUBMENU ITEM 2</li></a> 
             				</ul>
				</li>
			 </ul>
		 </div>

Make sure you close the < li > tag after the sublist.

Text

To create text simply call the < p > tag:

 <p> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, vis in paulo munere, mel commune ocurreret ex. </p>

Link

Links can be created with the < a > tag:

 <a href="  link url "> name of the link </a>

List

To create a simple list you will need to open a < ul > tag and then create < li > list item for every bulleted item you wish to create. You can also use < ol > (ordered list) instead of < ul > (unordered list) to replace the bullet points with numbers

			 <ol>

				<li> List item 1 </li>
				<li> List item 2 </li>
				<li> List item 3 </li>

			 </ol>

Lists can also be nested within themselves, here is an example:

			 <ul>

				<li> List item 1 
					<ol>
						<li> sublist item 1 </li>
						<li> sublist item 2 </li>
						<li> sublist item 3 </li>
					</ol>
				</li>

			 </ul>

Tables

Tables are styled and ready to use with any of the 3 templates. To create on, use the following code:

		<table> 

			<tr> 
				<th> Header 1  </th> 
				<th> Header 2 </th> 
			</tr> 

			<tr>  
				<td> Content A 1 </td>  
				<td> Content B 1 </td>  
			</tr> 

			<tr> 
				<td> Content A 2 </td>  
				<td> Content B 2 </td> 
			</tr> 

		</table>

This code will create a table with 3 rows and two columns, you can add as many as you like.

Highlight Boxes

You can create a highlight box by calling the class "highlightBox", this will create a box with a different background and a smaller width.

			
		<div class="highlightBox">
			<h4> Title of Highlight Box  </h4 >
			<p> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, vis in paulo munere, mel commune ocurreret ex. </p>
		</div>

Changing colors

You can edit any of the colors of the templates. You can use your school's colors or any other palette you like.

Here are some websites that can serve as inspiration:

Here is an example with Template B.
The color you wish to replace is the body background color. For template B, this color is #A7A9AB.
You can look for the color by it's hexadecimal code (the numbers are listed on the top of this page) and replace with any other color you like.

The line of code that you need to replace is the following:

		/* Set up a width, height and color of the body wrapper*/
		body { 
			...
			background-color: #A7A9AB;
		}

This table can help you locate what part of the template you wish to modify:

Class / Id	Description	Line of code
body	Background color of the page	background-color: #
#mainContainer	Color of main container	background-color: #
#mainContainer	Color of the borders in the main container	border- (right/left/top/bottom) : width px solid #
#contentContainer	Color of content container	background-color: #
#contentContainer	Color of the border on top of the content container	border-top : width px solid #
#menuContainer	Background color of content container	background-color: #
#menuContainer	Color of the border on top of the content container	border-top : width px solid #
#menuContainer a	Text color of links inside the menu (before hover state)	color: #
#menuContainer li:hover	Background color when you hover on the menu and submenu buttons	background-color: #
#menuContainer li ul li	Background color of the submenu buttons	background-color: #
#menuContainer li ul li	Text color of the submenu buttons	color: #
#contentContainer h1,h2,h3,h4,h4,h6	Color of the titles	color: #
#contentContainer a	Color of links (before hover)	color: #
#contentContainer a:hover	Color of links on hover	color: #
#mainContainer p	Color of the text	color: #
.highlightBox	Background color of the highlight box	background-color: #

Changing fonts

You can switch the font that your wiki to display. We strongly advise that you use web safe fonts, these fonts already are rendered by most browsers and don;t requiere any extra code.

		/* Main content wrap  */
		#mainContainer {  
			...
			font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif;
		}

Here is a small list of web safe fonts:

Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif
Century Gothic, sans-serif
Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif
‘Trebuchet MS’, Helvetica, sans-serif
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
Georgia, Serif
‘Palatino Linotype’, ‘Book Antiqua’, Palatino, serif

Here is where fonts are defined, it's best practice for all of them to be the same type font:

Class / Id	Description	Line of code
#contentContainer	Font family for text inside the main container	font-family:
#contentContainer	Font family for text inside the content container	font-family:
#contentContainer h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6	Font family for the titles	font-family:

Styling tables

You can modify the style of the tables in your template. You can change the border, the background color of the cells and the table headers.

Class / Id	Description	Line of code
#contentContainer table	Border of the table	border: width px solid #
#contentContainer td	Border for the cells inside the table	border: width px solid #
#contentContainer th	Background color for the table header cells	background-color: #
#contentContainer th	Border for the cells for the table header cells	border: width px solid #

Creating classes

You can create your own classes and use them throughout your wiki. Classes are useful because you can declare them once in your template code and simply call them on your other pages

Example "button" class

In the following box we will create a class called "button". This class has a definite height, width

    	    	 /*Normal state*/
    	    	.button {
   	    	    	width: 130px;
    			border: 2px solid #3aa76c;
    			background-color: fff;
    			height: 30px;
    			text-align: center;
        		border-radius: 5px;
        		padding: 10px 5px 0px 5px;
        		margin: auto;
    			color: #3aa76c;
			/*animate transition */
			-webkit-transition: background 0.2s linear;
			-moz-transition: background 0.2s linear;
			-ms-transition: background 0.2s linear;
			-o-transition: background 0.2s linear;
			transition: background 0.2s linear;
    		}

Here we add a hover state to the "button" class. The color will change when your mouse is over the "button" div.

    	    	 /*Hover state*/
    	    	.button:hover {
    			background-color: #3aa76c;
    			color: white;
    		}

Calling the "button" class

To call the class you just created you simply create a < div > tag and specify that it's class is going to be "button"

			<div class="button"> 	
				NAME
			</div>

This is how the class will display:

NAME

TemplatesforTeams Code Documentation

Templates

Adding HTML content

Editing CSS

Overview

Templates

Palettes

Template A

Template B

Template C

HTML and CSS

HTML

CSS

Creating a new wiki page

Applying templates

Editing the menu

Adding menu items

Adding submenu items

Text

Link

List

Tables

Highlight Boxes

Changing colors

Changing fonts

Styling tables

Creating classes

Example "button" class

Calling the "button" class