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Provides a lightly bordered box to highlight param values on Template documentation pages. Especially useful in cases where values may have leading or trailing blanks, or multiple embedded blanks.
Usage
{{param value|value}}
Parameters
There is one required positional parameter for the value, and four optional params: three for styling the display, and one replacement parameter for dealing with how to render a blank space:
|1=– the value to be highlighted; required (no default)|border=– may be used to set border attributes. default:thin solid #caa. Alias:|b=.|bg-color=– may be used to set background-color. default:white. Alias:|bg=.|style=– may be used to set any CSS style attributes, with one or more semicolon-separatedattribute:valuepairs. default:none.|space=– may be used to make spaces visible. Alias:|sp=. See #Making spaces visible below.
Note on special characters: if the value to be highlighted contains an equal sign, it must be escaped: use {{=}} instead of a bare equal sign character.
Examples
{{param value|2blanks between}}yields:2blanks between{{param value|2blanks between|space=·}}yields:2blanks··between{{param value| * : # }}yields:* : #{{param value| * : # |border=2px dashed khaki}}yields:* : #{{param value|white|bg=yellow}}yields:white{{pvalue|thin solid #caa|bg=#f5fcf9}}yields:thin solid #caa{{pval|* #|border=thin dashed purple|bg=#ffe6e6|style=border-radius:5px|space=␠}}yields:*␠␠#
Making spaces visible
You may make space characters visible by replacing them with any character you choose using param |space=. Here are some characters that have been historically used for this purpose. In these examples, there are two spaces between one and two:
- Space symbol – (U+2420 = ␠ ) :
{{param value|one two|space=␠}}⟶one␠␠two - Blank symbol – (U+2422 = ␢ ) :
{{pvalue|one two|space=␢}}⟶one␢␢two- Blank symbol – (smaller: ␢) :
{{pvalue|one two|space=<small>␢</small>}}⟶one␢␢two
- Blank symbol – (smaller: ␢) :
- Middot – (U+00B7 = · ) :
{{pval|one two|space=·}}⟶one··two - Underbracket – (U+23B5 = ⎵ ) :
{{pval|one two|space=⎵}}⟶one⎵⎵two - White rectangle – (U+25AF = ▯ ) :
{{pval|one two|space=▯}}⟶one▯▯two - Undertie – (U+203F = ‿ ) :
{{pval|one two|space=‿}}⟶one‿‿two