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This is a documentation subpage for Template:Font color.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

{{Font color}} is how you insert colourised text, such as red, orange, green, blue and indigo, and many others. You can specify its background colour at the same time.

{{Font color}} is also how you can colour wikilinks to something other than blue for when you need to work within background colours. Normally [[Shion]]Shion, but here we use a {{font color}} with |link= to create a pink Shion →  Shion . You can make any text link to any page using the |link= parameter.

This template will use the latest HTML5 recommendations, inserting the span tags <span style=color:color>...</span> and <span style=background-color:color>...</span> for you, so your page increases its readability and usability in both the wikitext and the rendered page.

Usage[edit source]

{{Font color}} has a one-colour and a two-colour form:

Either form has a |link= option, for colourising (otherwise blue or red) wikilink text:

|link=yes[[text]]
|link=fullpagename[[fullpagename]]

You can also name the other fields:

You can name |fg= or |bg=, which is nice, but... if you name either of them, you must also name |, which is a compromise.

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 .

Examples[edit source]

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}} Wikipedia:Example
{{font color|white|blue|Wikipedia:Example|link = Wikipedia:Sandbox}} Wikipedia:Example
{{font color|text = Wikipedia:Example|link = Wikipedia:Sandbox|bg = blue|fg = white}} Wikipedia:Example

The |link= parameter is a good way to colourise wikilinks, and it is about as much typing as the pipe trick.

A wikilink also accepts a font color (or other template or markup):

[[Wikipedia:Example|{{font color|white|blue|the Wikipedia:Example page}}
the Wikipedia:Example page (a font-coloured link)

A font color does not accept a wikilink, it creates wikilinks itself with |link=:

Redirects[edit source]

See also[edit source]