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 ]] &rarr; wikilink, but here we use a font color with link to create a black wikilink &rarr; 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 and , so the page increases its readability and usability in both the wikitext and the rendered page.

Usage
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 &rarr;
 * |link=fullpagename &rarr;

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 of no concern.
 * { {font color|tan|green|text with four words}} &rarr;  text with four words
 * { {font color|tan|green|text with four words}} &rarr;   text with four words
 * { { font color |  tan  |  green  | text with four words  }}  &rarr;    text   with    four     words

Parameters

 * Or

Examples
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):
 * → the Wikipedia:Example page (a font-colored link),
 * → the Wikipedia:Example page (a font-colored link),

a font color does not accept a wikilink, it creates wikilinks itself with link. For more examples see /testcases. For actual mainspace template usage, here are search links for
 * { { font color | green | violet | Wikipedia:Example | link=yes }} → Wikipedia:Example (a link font color)
 * { { font color | green | violet | the [ [Wikipedia:Example]] page}} → the Example page (Text with [ [wikilink brackets]] overrides the designated color)
 * { { font color | green | violet | [ [Wikipedia Exammple]] }} → the Wikipedia Exammple page (Text with [ [wikilink brackets]] overrides the designated color)
 * showing its use in articles whose title begins with the letter "F".
 * showing its use in articles whose title begins with the letter "F".
 * showing its use in articles whose title begins with the letter "F".