Create a new "boxstyle"

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Hi.

First of all: I love the new boxstyles. Thanks for implementing them.

Is there a possibility to create an own boxstyle “mybox”? And can you please guide me a little through the menues?

“Create your own box in the box macro” won´t help me finding a solution.

Thanks in advance.

Roland

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I found a way to change existing boxes:

How to customize Error/Warning/Success/Info Macro? - Help / Discuss - XWiki Forum

But how do I add a new custom box, which is shown in the ck-editor?

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The things that are shown in the CKEditor are wiki macros. I believe it should add it there as soon as you make your new macro available on your wiki.

You can either write it

For either implementation, I recommend inspiring yourself from the abstract message macro and the few existing children of this abstract class.

Good luck with writing your customization!

Lucas C.

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Hi.

Maybe a stupid question,… where are the default-macros stored? In the main wiki, in sub-wikis, in the theme?

Thx in advance.
Roland

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A bit everywhere, depending on the macro ^^’

For the box macro, it’s defined at https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-rendering/blob/579b7fcde2c77499e87611c38f2fec1c6eb49ef6/xwiki-rendering-macros/xwiki-rendering-macro-box/src/main/java/org/xwiki/rendering/internal/macro/box/DefaultBoxMacro.java which is stored in the xwiki-rendering-macro-box-X.X.X.jar.

The existing message macros are defined at xwiki-rendering/xwiki-rendering-macros/xwiki-rendering-macro-message/src/main/java/org/xwiki/rendering/internal/macro/message/InfoMessageMacro.java at 07aca1b9a5129a6bf44599821bd8c6d390f5e32d · xwiki/xwiki-rendering · GitHub and stored in the xwiki-rendering-macro-message-X.X.X.jar .

Some default macros are defined in their own XWiki page, like the children macro.

You can get a full list of macros at XWikiSyntaxMacrosList which is linked from the macro page in the help application (pretty difficult to find overwise IMO).

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