This subpage contains documentation, categories and other content that is not part of the template.
To view the template page itself, see Template:Colon.
To view the template page itself, see Template:Colon.
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This template produces a colon (Page Template:Kbd/styles.css has no content.:) character in the form of the character entity reference :. It is useful for times when directly entering a colon would trigger some wiki markup behavior.
information Note: Due to technical limitations it is not possible to create a shortcut to this template called Page Template:Kbd/styles.css has no content.{{:}}. Page Template:Kbd/styles.css has no content.{{58}} is available as an alternative.
TemplateData[edit]
This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. see a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Colon in articles.
TemplateData for Colon
A template to show :
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See also[edit]
- Category:Typing-aid templates and Category:Character-substitution templates for other templates producing characters.
- List of XML and HTML character entity references
- {{indent}}