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(( 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.
((Font color)) has a one-color and a two-color form:
Either form has a |link= option, for colorizing (otherwise blue or red) wikilink text.
[[text]]
[[fullpagename]]
You can also name the other fields.
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 .
Use / description | Default value | |
(({1))} | text color | inherited |
(({2))} | text | |
link | =yes or =fullpagename |
Use / description | Default value | |
(({1))} | text color | inherited |
(({2))} | background color | inherited |
(({3))} | text | |
link | =yes or =fullpagename |
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))]]
a font color does not accept a wikilink, it creates wikilinks itself with |link=
.
|link=
(( font color )))For actual mainspace template usage, here are search links for
|link=
is used.