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Untitled edit
Use at top to link to a FOOTER under the banner "Special characters". Place SpecialChars tag under the Footer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevertigo (talk • contribs) 00:47, 25 March 2005 (UTC)
New anchor suggestion edit
- Also posted in Template talk:SpecialChars.
It would be possible to specify an anchor by adding the id="????"
attribute to the <div>
tag in {{SpecialChars}}.
This would remove the necessity of adding a special header—which often looks clunkyanyway—and ensure that anywhere {{SpecialChars}} and {{SpecialCharsNote}} are used together they will work properly.
I suggest using "SpecialCharsTemplate
" as the anchor text.
I also suggest altering the wording slightly so that people actually expect to click for an explanation.
{{SpecialCharsNote}} would therefore contain:
:This article contains special characters: see [[#SpecialCharsTemplate|explnatory note]].
and {{SpecialChars}} would start:
<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background-color: #f3f9ff; margin: 1em 2.5% 0 2.5%; padding: 0 10px; border: 1px solid #aaa;id="SpecialCharsTemplate">
Usage edit
In seems many uses of this template are incomplete and miss the second template {{SpecialChars}}. WilliamKF 03:06, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
- Also it seems like having the explaination on each page is excessive, why not just have the {{SpecialCharsNote}} suffice with it linking to a single location instead of to a footnote on the same page at the bottom. Seems like a waste of space and a distraction to the articles using it. WilliamKF 03:37, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
- Agreed.. how about making it link to meta:Help:Special characters? Mlm42 12:48, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Nominated for deletion edit
This template was nominated for deletion on March 4, 2006. The result was keep. The archived discussion can be found here. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:36, 11 March 2006 (UTC)