Template:Highlight

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For adding yellow highlight to specified inline 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|2025-01-11}}	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>

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