Template:Font color/doc

Purpose

Template:Tl 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.

Template:Tl is also how you can color wikilinks to something other than blue for when you need to work within background colors. Normally [[wikilink]] produces 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 uses 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

Template:Tl has a one-color and a two-color form:

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

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

You can also name the other fields:

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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.

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}}	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}}]] produces 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 }} produces Wikipedia:Example (a |link= Template:Tl)
✗ {{ font color | green | violet | the [[Wikipedia:Example]] page }} produces the Wikipedia:Example page (text with [[wikilink brackets]] overrides the designated color)