Template:Font color/doc

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 uses the latest Wikipedia: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-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.

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