Template:Legend

This template uses TemplateStyles: Template:Legend/styles.css

Shows a legend row with a colored box.

• 1 Usage
• 2 Examples
  • 2.1 Use in text
  • 2.2 Use in captions
  • 2.3 Use with all parameters
• 3 Full parameter list
• 4 Limitations
• 5 See also
• 6 TemplateData

This section is missing information about the function of the parameter alt. Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (December 2023)

{{legend|background-color|caption|outline=outline color|border=css border}}

• background-color is passed to the css background-color property of the color box.
• The optional outline parameter is the color of the outline around the box.
• The optional border argument which overrides the outline argument and sets the css description (e.g., 1px solid #aaa) of the border that will be drawn around the box.

{{legend|black|Africa}}
{{legend|green|Americas}}
{{legend|blue|Oceania}}
{{legend|#ffa|Europe|outline=silver}}
{{legend|#ff2800|Asia|outline=#A2A9B1}}  (#A2A9B1 is the wikitables border color.)

Markup	Renders as
[[File:Celts in Europe.png|upright=.9|thumb|right|The Celts in Europe, past and present: {{legend|#1a8000|Present-day Celtic-speaking areas}} {{legend|#27c600|Other parts of the six most commonly recognized "Celtic nations" and where a Celtic language is spoken but not the dominating language}} {{legend|#97ffb6|Other parts of Europe once peopled by Celts; modern-day inhabitants of many of these areas often claim a Celtic heritage and/or culture}} {{legend|#D2FFD2|Lusitanian area of Iberia, "Celticity" uncertain}} {{legend|yellow|The core Hallstatt territory, expansion before 500 BC}} ]]	Other parts of the six most commonly recognized "Celtic nations" and where a Celtic language is spoken but not the dominating language   Other parts of Europe once peopled by Celts; modern-day inhabitants of many of these areas often claim a Celtic heritage and/or culture   Lusitanian area of Iberia, "Celticity" uncertain   The core Hallstatt territory, expansion before 500 BC

{{legend
| #ded <!--light green-->
| The meadow is green.
| outline   = #00e <!--blue >> will be not used because overridden by border-parameter-->
| border    = 2px solid #e00 <!--red-->
| textcolor = #00e <!--blue-->
| size      = 200%
| text      = green
}}

{{legend
| [legend box's colo(u)r]
| [text following legend box]
| outline =   <!--colo(u)r of border around legend box-->
| border =    <!--use to specify custom CSS styling for border (overrides 'outline')-->
| textcolor = <!--colo(u)r of 'text'-->
| size =      <!--'text' font-size-->
| text =      <!--to place text inside the legend box-->
}}

Using certain special characters in |text= that have meaning in wikitext can cause unexpected results. To use *in|text=, use |text={{asterisk}}. To use # in |text=, use |text={{number sign}}.

• Variant blocks
  • {{legend striped}}, two colors, for striped color areas
  • {{legend inline}}, uses display:inline to avoid line breaks after each legend
  • {{legend0}}, without the line-feed
  • {{leftlegend}}, with text-align set to left
  • {{color box}} and {{RouteBox}}, with text placed inside the colored legend and article linking
• {{legend-line}}, legends for lines
• {{image key}}, allows legend templates being used in image captions to use multiple columns

• Lists of colors
• Web colors

Templates that list colors

• {{Colornames}}
• {{X11 color chart}}
• {{Web Colors}}

This section is missing information about the function of the parameter alt. Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (December 2023)

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