Template:Color
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This template can be used to specify the foreground color of a span of text. Acceptable values are RGB hex codes, e.g. #C9E72A, or any of the web colors: red, blue, green, moccasin, darkorchid, etc. To set the background color of a span of text, use {{background color}}.
Usage
{{color|name of color or hex code of color|Text}}
For example:
{{color|red|Hello, world!}}→ Hello, world!{{color|#00F000|Hello, world!}}→ Hello, world!
If the second parameter is omitted, the color value is displayed as text:
{{color|#00F000}}→ #00F000{{color|red}}→ red
Performance considerations
The template generates an HTML span tag:
<span style="color:{{{1}}}">{{{2}}}</span>
It runs at speeds in excess of 700 per second,[clarification needed] and so is functionally identical to using the HTML markup directly.
Template data
This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.
Color
The color template can be used to add a span of text with any given text color
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Color | 1 | CSS name of color or hex code of color, e.g. 'red' or '#00F000'. | String | required |
| Text | 2 | The string of text to be formatted in the desired color | String | suggested |
Redirects
{{COLOR}}{{Colored text}}{{Colour}}{{COLOUR}}{{Fgcolor}}
See also
- {{resize}}
- {{colored link}}
- {{background color}}
- {{font color}} – allows setting both text and background color
- {{coltit}} – colored table header cell