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Adhbhar - Purpose

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{{ Colors}} 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.

{{ Colors}} 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 {{ Colors}} 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.

Ùsaid - Usage

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{{Colors}} has a one-color and a two-color form:

{{Colors | color | text}}
{{Colors | 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.

{{Colors | fg=color | text=text}}
{{Colors | 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.

.{text with four words..text with four words.
. {text with four words .. text with four words .
. {text with four words .. text with four words .


Paramadairean - Parameters

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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

Eisimpleirean - Examples

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Markup Renders as
{{Colors | green | green text}} green text
{{Colors | blue | do not style text as a link}} do not style text as a link
{{ Colors || yellow | default text in yellow background}} default text in yellow background
{{ Colors | bg=yellow | text = default text in yellow background}} default text in yellow background
{{Colors | white | black | white with black background}} white with black background
{{Colors | #ffffff | #000000 | white with black background}} ({{enUici|hexadecimal colors}}) white with black background (hexadecimal colors)
Markup Renders as
{{Colors | white | blue | Wikipedia:Example | link = yes}} Wikipedia:Example
{{Colors | white | blue | Wikipedia:Example | link = :en:Wikipedia:Sandbox}} Wikipedia:Example
{{Colors | 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 Colors (or other template or markup):

[[Wikipedia:Example|{{Colors|white|blue|the Wikipedia:Example page}}]]
the Wikipedia:Example page (a font-colored link),

a Colors does not accept a wikilink, it creates wikilinks itself with |link=.

  • Teamplaid:OK {{ Colors | green | violet | Wikipedia:Example | link=yes}} → Wikipedia:Example (a |link= {{ Colors}})
  • ☒N{{ Colors | green | violet | the [[Wikipedia:Example]] page}} → the Wikipedia:Example page (Text with [[wikilink brackets]] overrides the designated color)
  • ☒N{{ Colors | green | violet | [[Wikipedia:Exammple]]}} → the Wikipedia:Exammple page (Text with [[wikilink brackets]] overrides the designated color)

For more examples see Template:Font color/testcases. For actual mainspace template usage, here are search links for

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