Template:Font color/doc

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

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

• {{font color|colour|text}}
• {{font color|text colour|background colour text}}

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:

• {{font color|fg=colour|text=text}}
• {{font color|fg=text colour|bg=background colour|text=text}}

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

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=:

• {{font color|green|violet|Wikipedia:Example}} → Wikipedia:Example (a |link= {{font color}})
• {{font color|green|violet|the [[Wikipedia:Example]] page}} → the Wikipedia:Example page (Text with [[wikilink brackets]] overrides the designated colour)
• {{font color|green|violet|[[Wikipedia:Exammple]]}} → the Wikipedia:Exammple page (Text with [[wikilink brackets]] overrides the designated color)

Redirects

• {{Font colour}}

See also

• Wikipedia:Web colors
• Wikipedia:List of colors
• Wikipedia:Help:Link color
• {{color}}
• {{background color}}
• {{font}}