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Purpose

This is how you insert colorized text, such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue and indigo, violet, and many others.

It's needed for matching a color theme such as in sports templates. You can specify a background color too.

You can make any text link to any page. (See "yellow" and "blue" above.)

For example, giving your plain [[wikilink]], you get

header 1	header 2	header 3
row 1, cell 1 wikilink	row 1, cell 2	row 1, cell 3
row 2, cell 1	row 2, cell 2	row 2, cell 3

You need {{font color | green | wikilink | link = yes }}

header 1	header 2	header 3
row 1, cell 1 wikilink	row 1, cell 2	row 1, cell 3
row 2, cell 1	row 2, cell 2	row 2, cell 3

Font color will use the latest Wikipedia:HTML5 recommendations, inserting the span tag attributes

style=background-color:

style=color:

for you, so your page increases its readability and usability in the wikitext and its rendering.

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 never of any concern.

.{{ font color | tan | green | label with four words }}. → .label with four words.

. {{ font color | fg = tan | bg = green | text = label with four words }} . → . label 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\|white\|black\|white with black background}}`	white with black background
`{{font colorTemplate:Bigyellow\|default text in yellow background}}`	default text in yellow background
`{{font colorTemplate:Bigbg=yellow\|text=default text in yellow background}}`	default text in yellow background

Markup	Renders as
`{{font color\|white\|blue\|Wikipedia:Example\|link=yes}}`	Wikipedia:Example
`{{font color\|white\|blue\|Example\|link=Wikipedia:Sandbox}}`	Example
`{{font color\|text=Example\|link=Wikipedia:Sandbox\|bg=blue\|fg=white}}`	Example

The |link= parameter is a good way to colorize wikilinks, and it is about as much typing as the pipe trick.

[[Wikipedia:Sandbox|{{font color|white|blue|Example}}]] → Example Linked by the pipe trick. Green tickY
{{font color|white|blue|Example|link=Wikipedia:Sandbox}} → Example Linked by {{font color}} Green tickY
{{font color|red|[[Wikipedia:Sandbox]]}} → Wikipedia:Sandbox Not "red" like it said, because text is a wikilink. ☒N
{{font color|white|green|[[Wikipedia:Sandborax]]}} → Wikipedia:Sandborax Not white on green: text is a wikilink. ☒N

This span is style=background-color:yellow. {{font color|red|some red text}} → some red text.
Link with {{font color|purple|''The Color Purple''|link=The Color Purple}} → The Color Purple. Span ending.

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