font Color
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Purpose
{{ Font color }} is how you insert colorized text, such as red, orange, green, blue and indigo, and many others. You can specify its background color at the same time.
{{ Font color }} is also how you can color wikilinks to something other than blue for when you need to work within background colors. Normally [[ wikilink ]] → wikilink, but here we use a {{ font color }} with |link = to create a black wikilink → wikilink You can make any text link to any page using the |link= parameter.
This template will use the latest Wikipedia:HTML5 recommendations,[timeframe?] inserting the span tags color>... and color>... for you, so your page increases its readability and usability in both the wikitext and the rendered page.
Usage
{{Font color}} has a one-color and a two-color form:
- {{font color | color | text }}
- {{font color | text color | background color | text }}.
Either form has a |link= option, for colorizing (otherwise blue or red) wikilink text.
- |link=yes →
[[text]] - |link=fullpagename →
[[fullpagename]]
You can also name the other fields.
- {{font color | fg=color | text=text }}
- {{font color | fg=text color | bg=background color | text=text }}
You can name |fg= or |bg=, which is nice, but... if you name either of them, you must also name |text=, which is a compromise. (See Help:Template#Parameters for why.)
Spacing is of no concern.
.{{font color|tan|green|text with four words}}.→.text with four words..{{font color|tan|green|text with four words}}.→.text with four words..{{ font color | tan | green | text with four words }}.→.text with four words.
Parameters
| Use / description | Default value | |
| {{{1}}} | text color | inherited |
| {{{2}}} | text | |
| link | =yes or =fullpagename |
- Or
| Use / description | Default value | |
| {{{1}}} | text color | inherited |
| {{{2}}} | background color | inherited |
| {{{3}}} | text | |
| link | =yes or =fullpagename |
Examples
| Markup | Renders as |
|---|---|
{{ font color | green | green text }} | green text |
{{ font color | blue | do not style text as a link }} | do not style text as a link |
{{ font color | white | black | white with black background }} | white with black background |
{{ font color || yellow | default text in yellow background }} | default text in yellow background |
{{ font color | bg=yellow | text = default text in yellow background }} | default text in yellow background |
| Markup | Renders as |
|---|---|
{{ font color | white | blue | Wikipedia:Example | link = yes }} | Wiki: Example |
{{ font color | white | blue | Wikipedia:Example | link = Wikipedia:Sandbox }} | Wiki: Example |
{{ font color | text = Wikipedia:Example | link = Wikipedia:Sandbox | bg = blue | fg = white }} | Wiki: Example |
The |link= parameter is a good way to colorize wikilinks, and it is about as much typing as the pipe trick.
Although a wikilink accepts a font color (or other template or markup):
[[Wiki: Example|{{font color|white|blue|the Wikipedia:Example page}}]]- → the Wikipedia:Example page (a font-colored link),
a font color does not accept a wikilink, it creates wikilinks itself with |link=.
{{ font color | green | violet | Wikipedia:Example | link=yes }} → Wiki: Example (a |link={{ font color }})
{{ font color | green | violet | the [[Wikipedia:Example]] page}} → the Wikipedia:Example page (Text with [[wikilink brackets]] overrides the designated color)- {{ font color | green | violet | [[Wikipedia:Exammple]] }} → the Wikipedia:Exammple page (Text with [[wikilink brackets]] overrides the designated color)
For more examples see /testcases. For actual mainspace template usage, here are search links for
- all usage.
- where
|link=is used. - hastemplate: "font color" prefix:F showing its use in articles whose title begins with the letter "F".
See also
- Important Manual of Style information
- Web colors
- HTML color names
- List of colors
- Help: Link color
- {{color}}
- {{background color}}
- {{color contrast ratio}}
- {{hilite}}
- {{font}}
- {{tq}}
- {{xt}}