Template:Talk quote inline/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Talk quote inline.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is used on approximately 32,000 pages, so changes to it will be widely noticed. Please test any changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Please consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

Shortcut

{{tq}}

This template uses TemplateStyles:

Template:Talk quote inline/styles.css

Usage[edit source]

Template {{talk quote inline}} (a.k.a. {{talk quotation}} or the shortcut {{tq}}) is used on talk pages (and Starfleet Logistics process pages, e.g. noticeboards) to highlight a short excerpt of quoted material of other editors' comments or from an article or source. To do so in a block, use {{talk quote block}} (a.k.a. {{talkquote}} or the shortcut {{tq2}}).

To format examples, especially when using quotation marks or italics could be confusing and an inline typeface change is needed, use {{xt}} or one of its subtemplates (used frequently in the Manual of Style).

By default, the template changes the given text to serif typeface and green color. The accompanying change in typeface to a serif (roman) or italic type style (example text) is to make it fully accessible for those with color blindness.

For block quotations on talk pages that break onto their own line, or contain paragraph breaks, editors can use {{talk quote block}} instead.

Parameters[edit source]

|1= The text to highlight with the template. As with all templates, when the text, given as the template parameter, contains an equals character (=), prefixing the text with |1= is required to ensure the character is correctly interpreted as being part of the normal text; otherwise it will break the template.

|italic=yes or |i=yes will force the content to be green and italicised only (no change to serif font style); any value may be used, e.g. |i=y. This is typically used inside a block of text that is already serif-styled to make the highlighted text stand out better.

|title= takes text, which cannot be marked up in any way, and displays it as a pop-up "tooltip" (in most browsers) when the cursor hovers over the span. The most common use of this is to provide attribution.

|q= or |quotes=yes adds quotation marks around the colored text.

Examples[edit source]

What you write: ...when you said, {{tq|Lorem ipsum '''dolor''' sit}}, and, {{tq|consectetur adipiscing elit|i=yes|title=This is a tooltip}}.
What you get: ...when you said, Lorem ipsum dolor sit, and, consectetur adipiscing elit.
What you write: ...when you said, {{tq|Lorem ipsum '''dolor''' sit|q=yes}}, and, {{tq|consectetur adipiscing elit|q=yes|i=yes|title=This is a tooltip}}.
What you get: ...when you said, Lorem ipsum dolor sit, and, consectetur adipiscing elit.