Template:Color

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The quick Template:Color can be used to add a span of text with any given text color, such as an RGB hex code, #C9E72A, or any of the web colors: red, blue, green, moccasin, or darkorchid, etc. The foreground text color is set, but to reset the background color, see: {{bg}}.

Usage

{{color|name of color or hex code of color|Text}}

For example:

{{color|red|Hello, world!}} Template:Nsgives:  Hello, world!
{{color|#00F000|Hello, world!}}Template:Nsgives:  Hello, world!

Wikitext generated:

<span style="color:{{{1|}}}">{{{2|}}}</span>

See: Web colors, for a list of colors. A misspelled color name will not be reported, but will cause the text to remain as black text.

Performance considerations

The template merely uses a span tag:  <span style="color:{{{1}}}">{{{2}}}</span>. It runs at speeds in excess of 700 per second, and so it is functionally identical to the longer span-tag markup.

Template data

Template:TemplateDataHeader <templatedata> {

       "description": "The color template can be used to add a span of text with any given text color",
       "params": {
               "1": {
                       "label": "Color",
                       "description": "CSS name of color or hex code of color, e.g. 'red' or '#00F000'.",
                       "type": "string",
                       "required": true
               },
               "2": {
                       "label": "Text",
                       "description": "The string of text to be be formatted in the desired color",
                       "type": "string",
                       "required": true
               }
       }

} </templatedata>

See also

• {{Background color}}
• {{Resize}}
• {{LinkColor}}