Template:Unknown/doc
Purpose
This template creates a table cell with a light grey background and black, larger heavy text which defaults to a triple question mark, as seen above. It is designed to generate a uniform appearance for common cell values in feature and comparison tables with minimal effort, alongside similar templates like:
Yes |
or
No |
or
Partial |
Usage
The template will only function properly when used inside of the standard wikicode for tables, following the pipe character(s) which indicate the start of a new table cell. In practice, it looks like this when editing and then when parsed:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Template documented?
! Template categorized?
|-
| {{Unknown}}
| {{Yes}}
|}
Template documented? | Template categorized? |
---|---|
??? | Yes |
Custom cell text
The question marks as the cell's content can be replaced with any text desired by assigning it to the value of the |1=
parameter or passing it as the only unnamed parameter. For example, calling this template with either {{Unknown|TBD}} or {{Unknown|1=TBD}} formatting, as both produce the following table cell when transcluded and parsed:
TBD |
Parameters
Changes to the template's appearance when parsed are accomplished by adding parameters to the template call in the form of {{Unknown|name=value}}
. Use as many or as few as needed to accomplish the desired appearance.
Name | Value |
---|---|
1 |
plain text or wiki markup that overrides the default ??? contents (may also be provided as only unnamed parameter) |
align |
left or right align the cell contents to that horizontal edge, overriding the default center alignment |
bgcolor |
changes the background color — values may be:
|
style |
any other CSS style elements desired beyond or instead of the default formatting, each one terminated with a semicolon |
Default style
This template uses the following CSS elements as its defaults. Those without an explicit override parameter above can still be changed if necessary by adding them as a value for the |style=
parameter with a space and !important placed before the terminating semicolon.
style="background: #d3d3d3; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; font-weight: 800; font-size: 108%;"
An example of such an override (in this instance changing the font-weight parameter which controls the level of typeface boldness to the unbolded value of 500) would look like:
{{Unknown|style=font-weight: 500 !important;}}
which then appears as???
See also
- {{Yes}}
- {{No}}
- {{Partial}}
- {{Beta}}
- Category: Formatting templates