Template:Font color/sandbox

This is the template sandbox page for Template:Font color (diff).
See also the companion subpage for test cases.

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This template is used on approximately 40,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

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 Wikipedia:HTML5 recommendations, inserting the span tags <span style="color:color">...</span> and <span style="background-color:color">...</span>, so the 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 \|\| 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
`{{ font color \| white \| black \| white with black background }}`	white with black background
`{{ font color \| #ffffff \| #000000 \| white with black background }} ([[hexadecimal colors]])`	white with black background (hexadecimal colors)
`{{ font color \| rgb(255,255,255) \| rgb(0,0,0) \| white with black background }}`	white with black background

Markup	Renders as
`{{ font color \| white \| blue \| Wikipedia:Example \| link = yes }}`	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 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):

[[Wikipedia: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=.

Y {{ font color | green | violet | Wikipedia:Example | link=yes }} → Wikipedia:Example (a |link= {{ font color }})
N{{ font color | green | violet | the [[Wikipedia:Example]] page}} → the Wikipedia:Example page (Text with [[wikilink brackets]] overrides the designated color)
N{{ 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".