Template:Colorbox/doc

Usage

{{colorbox|color|text|wikilink}}

• Colors are most commonly specified as either a color keyword or as the hexadecimal triplet representing an RGB combination.
• Text is optional; it is displayed using the default style foreground color.
• The wikilink parameter is also optional and specifies the article to which the text should point.

Examples

Visual effect	Markup
	{{colorbox|Red}}
Default colour for this text	{{colorbox|Fuchsia|Default color for this text}}
Wikilink to "Article"	{{colorbox|Yellow|Wikilink to "Article"|Club Penguin Fanon Wiki}}
Using an X11 color name	{{colorbox|Chartreuse|'''Using an X11 color name'''|Wikipedia:X11 color names}}
Using RGB hex triplet	{{colorbox|#FEDCBA|''Using RGB hex triplet''|Wikipedia:Web colors#Hex triplet}}

NOTE: Using a blue, purple, or red colorbox obscures unvisited, visited, and missing wikilinks, respectively, as these are the default link colors for most users.

Legends and keys

The colorbox template is widely used to annotate complex tables in which editors have used color to group like entries. The editor uses the background-color style to color individual cells in the table and then adds a legend consisting of colorboxes at the beginning or end of the table explaining the meanings behind the color scheme.

Text marker examples

Visual effect	Markup
^	{{colorbox|#CEF2E0|^}}
†	{{colorbox|#CEDFF2|†}}
‡	{{colorbox|#DDCEF2|‡}}
*	{{colorbox|#F2E0CE|*}}

NOTE:

1. Using a black colorbox with text markers obscures the text as the default style foreground color for most users is black.
2. The HTML code * must be used to create the asterisk as Wikipedia will treat the typed asterisk as an indented bullet point.