Template:Small/doc
This is a documentation subpage for Template:Small. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
This template is used on many pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them. |
This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see Wikipedia:COinS. |
As of June 10, 2016, a rule has been added to MediaWiki:Common.css, so now <small> consistently renders at size that is 85% of the surrounding text. This template remains as a convenience wrapper. |
Usage
This template is a replacement for <small>...</small>
.
Remember "Avoid using smaller font sizes in elements that already use a smaller font size, such as infoboxes, navboxes and references sections". Using this template within an infobox would produce a font size 75% of the page default, well below the 85% minimum specified in the linked guidelines.
The only parameter is the content and may contain templates, images, etc. if a block needs to be wrapped in this template and contains such elements. Note that if the =
character appears in the content, the parameter must be explicitly specified as |1=
.
Do not use this template to wrap multiple lines; doing so will cause Linter errors. If you need to wrap multiple list items or multiple paragraphs, use {{smalldiv}} around the entire block, or wrap each list item or paragraph separately.
Thus Good practice:
input | shows |
---|---|
What a wonderful world
|
What a wonderful world |
{{small|What a wonderful world}}
|
What a wonderful world |
{{small|1=3 + 2 = 5}}
|
3 + 2 = 5 |
{{small|1=103}} {{small|1=+ 2}} —— {{small|1=105}} |
103
+ 2 —— 105 |
Don't do this:
{{small| *One *Two *Three}}
Do this instead:
{{smalldiv| *One *Two *Three}}
Template data
TemplateData for Small
<templatedata> {
"description": "A template shortcut for the \"small\" HTML tag that makes the font smaller ", "params": { "1": { "label": "Text", "description": "The text that you'd like to be made smaller", "type": "string", "required": true } }
} </templatedata>
Tracking category
See also
Code for inline content | Code for block content | Size | Result |
---|---|---|---|
{{small|text}} {{smaller|text}} |
{{smalldiv|text}} |
85% | text |
{{resize|text}} |
{{resizediv|text}} |
90% | text |
{{midsize|text}} |
92% | text | |
none | none | 100% | text |
{{large|text}} {{larger|text}} {{big|text}} |
{{largediv|text}} |
120% | text |
{{huge|text}} |
180% | text | |
{{resize|x%|text}} |
{{resizediv|x%|text}} |
custom | varies |
{{font|size=x%}} |
custom | varies |