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I suggest protect this template — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mac (talk • contribs) at 12:05, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. — Ilmari Karonen (talk) 13:27, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please add [[he:צבע גופן]] to this protected template. Thanks, Dovi (talk) 07:03, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

{{editprotected}}

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>

--Lightsup55 ( T | C ) 19:28, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done - Rjd0060 (talk) 02:27, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See WikiProject Accessibility's talk page. Helder 19:41, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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

{{font color/sandbox|white|blue|Universities Research Association|link=yes}}

{{font color/sandbox|white|blue|Universities Research Association|link=URA}}

--  Gadget850 ^talk 23:25, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

 Done --  Gadget850 ^talk 14:14, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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]

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. — CpiralCpiral 08:30, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Space characters did not need to define colors, nor be used in a label field to add space outside the template. So I made the space issue go away in the sandbox and redid all the testcases. Then I did this search link hastemplate:"font color" insource:/\{\{ *[Ff]ont color *\|[^}]*( \||\| )/ prefix:: and fixed a few minor things in those to feel totally right about swapping it into service.— CpiralCpiral 12:48, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Add <noinclude>{{subst:tfm|Colored link}}</noinclude> to the top, as I just nominated it for merging. Noincluding as it is sometimes substituted. Pppery 02:29, 22 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done Primefac (talk) 03:28, 22 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Primefac: For some reason, I always forget the syntax of {{tls}}, and thus |otherpage= needs to be changed to |otherpage=colored link in the tfm notice. Pppery 03:51, 22 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done Primefac (talk) 03:53, 22 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, can you add a 'font-type', 'font-family' or 'font-variant' in it. It would be very helpful. Empire AS ^(Talk) 07:42, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Empire AS, {{Font}} might be what you're looking for. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 07:48, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sdkb, I know that however the problem is, that template uses named parameters but an unnamed parameter of font should be here too. Empire AS ^(Talk) 07:51, 11 December 2020 (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}} ^talk 08:17, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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？！」^{☎ Dinoguy1000} 11:53, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]