Template:Highlight/doc

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For 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

{{hilite | 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
{{hilite | text }}	text	The default highlight color is yellow
{{hilite | text | lightblue }}	text	The second parameter is the highlight color
{{hilite | text | pink | 2011-01-01 }}	text	This is not highlighted since 1 January 2011 is in the past
{{hilite | text | pink | 2024-11-14 }}	text	There is no highlighting on the expiration date ( if today's date is not shown)
{{hilite | text | #00FF00 | 1 January 2099 }}	text	This is highlighted since 1 January 2099 is in the future
{{hilite | 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}} – redirects to this template
• {{Highlight round}} – highlights the included text using a rounded box with shadows
• {{tq}} – for quoting text on talk pages
• {{font color}}