highlight
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For adding yellow highlight to specified text. The highlight color can be changed, and the highlight can also be set to expire at a certain date. Please keep template usage to talk pages only.
Usage
{{highlight | text | color (optional) | expiration (optional) }}
Parameters
- text (parameter 1): Enter the text to be highlighted.
Optional parameters
These parameters are optional, but unused parameters must be separated by a pipe (see examples below):
- color (parameter 2): Colors may be specified by word (e.g., "red", "blue", "lightgreen") or in hexadecimal format (e.g., "#FF0066", "#C0C0C0"). If no value is given for the color, the template defaults to yellow.
- expiration (parameter 3): Highlights may be set to expire on a certain date, which leaves the text as-is, but removes the highlight color. The expiration value can be specified in any format.
Examples
| code | output | notes |
|---|---|---|
| {{highlight | text | The default highlight color is yellow |
| {{highlight | text | The second parameter is the highlight color |
| {{highlight | text | This is not highlighted since 1 January 2011 is in the past |
| {{highlight | text | There is no highlighting on the expiration date ( if today's date is not shown) |
| {{highlight | text | This is highlighted since 1 January 2099 is in the future |
| {{highlight | text | Note the color parameter, left blank, is still represented with a pipe (followed by the expiration parameter pipe) |
See also
- {{Highlight round}} – highlights the included text using a rounded box with shadows
- {{tq}} – for quoting text on talk pages
- {{font color}}
Highlights the given text.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text to be highlighted | 1 text | no description
| Content | required |
| Highlight color | 2 color | CSS color to be used for highlight, like lightblue or #FF0066
| Unknown | optional |
| Expiration date of highlight | 3 expiration | After this date, the text will remain but the highlight color will not display.
| Date | optional |