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Please remove the usage section and replace it with the {{Documentation}} template as I've created a documentation subpage at Template:Fontcolor/doc. A specific description of the request follows below. Thanks.
Change this:
{{#if:{{{3|}}}|<span style="background-color:{{{2|inherit}}};color:{{{1|inherit}}};">{{{3|}}}</span>|<span style="color:{{{1|inherit}}};">{{{2|}}}</span>}}<noinclude>
== Usage ==
'''<nowiki>{{fontcolor|text_color|background_color|text}}</nowiki>'''
Examples of use:
*'''<nowiki>{{fontcolor|green|this is about plants}}</nowiki>''': {{fontcolor|green|this is about plants}}:(it appears in green text).
*'''<nowiki>{{fontcolor||red|text in red background}}</nowiki>''': {{fontcolor||red|text in red background}}:(no parameters are used for the text color, only for the background)
*'''<nowiki>{{fontcolor|red|yellow|red text with yellow background}}</nowiki>''': {{fontcolor|red|yellow|red text with yellow background}}
== See also ==
* [[HTML color names]]
* [[List of colors]]
[[Category:text color templates]]
[[pt:Predefinição:Fontcolor]]
[[sl:Predloga:Barvapis]]
[[zh:Template:Fontcolor]]
</noinclude>
To this:
{{#if:{{{3|}}}|<span style="background-color:{{{2|inherit}}};color:{{{1|inherit}}};">{{{3|}}}</span>|<span style="color:{{{1|inherit}}};">{{{2|}}}</span>}}<noinclude>
<!-- Add categories and interwikis to the /doc subpage, not here! -->
{{Documentation}}</noinclude>
I added |link= to {{font color/sandbox}} to add a wikilink. The use is when the blue link would be non-accessible on a background such as a navbox header. A search shows this use is prevelant.
|link=yes sets the link to the test
|link=link sets the link to the link text
Markup
Renders as
[[Universities Research Association|{{font color|white|blue|Universities Research Association}}]]
One, two lines of the template were setting the background colour to {{{2}}} in the two-parameter case, where the second parameter is the text to be displayed, not a colour name.
Two, when templates are expanded as part of a signature, the software does not remove the comments. So the comment in the first #if was breaking the logic of the template; the #if was always coming out true. This behaviour could also be seen in the result from Special:ExpandTemplates. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:12, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Added more named parameters
Per sandbox and new testcases, named parameters now work for {{{1}}}{{{2}}} and {{{3}}}.
If this is OK, yet not documented withing a while, I'll document it.
fg=1 bg=2 text=3. Link=4 was already there. — CpiralCpiral08:30, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not quite sure what you're proposing (you could mock it up the sandbox if you want to demonstrate), but generally I think it's not a good idea to expand the functionality of this template beyond just selecting the color. If we were to do that we'd just want to merge it with {{Font}}. {{u|Sdkb}}talk08:17, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Color of link underline
Currently, if a link is colored using this template, the underline is not colored appropriately, e.g. Main Page. {{Colored link}} properly handles this via the CSS text-decoration: inherit; I'd personally suggest to just shell out to {{Colored link}} when this template is used to color a link, but the CSS could also be added here directly. 「ディノ奴千？！」☎ Dinoguy100011:53, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Displaying different colors for light/dark modes
Is there a way to display one color in light mode and a different color in dark mode? For example, if I want to show blue text for users using light mode, but I want to show light blue text for users using dark mode, is there a way to do this? The Sands of Time 0 (talk) 00:26, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
