Template:Highlight
Template documentationFor adding yellow highlight to specified text. The highlight color can be changed, and the highlight can also be set to expire at a certain date. Please keep template usage to talk pages only.
Usage
{{highlight | text | color (optional) | expiration (optional) }}
Parameters
- text (parameter 1): Enter the text to be highlighted.
Optional parameters
These parameters are optional, but unused parameters must be separated by a pipe (see examples below):
- color (parameter 2): Colors may be specified by word (e.g., "red", "blue", "lightgreen") or in hexadecimal format (e.g., "#FF0066", "#C0C0C0"). If no value is given for the color, the template defaults to yellow.
- expiration (parameter 3): Highlights may be set to expire on a certain date, which leaves the text as-is, but removes the highlight color. The expiration value can be specified in any format.
Examples
| code | output | notes |
|---|---|---|
{{highlight|text}} |
text | The default highlight color is yellow |
{{highlight|text|lightblue}} |
text | The second parameter is the highlight color |
{{highlight|text|lightblue|2011-01-01}} |
text | This is not highlighted since 1 January 2011 is in the past |
{{highlight|text|lightblue|2024-12-22}} |
text | There is no highlighting on the expiration date ( if today's date is not shown) |
{{highlight|text|#00FF00|1 January 2099}} |
text | This is highlighted since 1 January 2099 is in the future |
{{highlight|text|January 1, 2099}} |
text | Note the color parameter, left blank, is still represented with a pipe (followed by the expiration parameter pipe) |
See also
- {{Highlight round}} – highlights the included text using a rounded box with shadows
- {{tq}} – for quoting text on talk pages
- {{font color}}
<templatedata> { "params": { "1": { "aliases": [ "text" ], "label": "Text to be highlighted", "example": "Some text goes here", "type": "content", "required": true }, "2": { "aliases": [ "color" ], "label": "Highlight color", "description": "CSS color to be used for highlight, like lightblue or #FF0066", "example": "lightblue", "type": "unknown", "default": "yellow" }, "3": { "aliases": [ "expiration" ], "label": "Expiration date of highlight", "description": "After this date, the text will remain but the highlight color will not display.", "example": "2029-09-01", "type": "date" } }, "description": "Highlights the given text.", "paramOrder": [ "1", "2", "3" ], "format": "inline" } </templatedata>