Template:Small/doc

Template page

Usage

This template is a replacement for ‎<small>...‎</small>.

Remember "Avoid using smaller font sizes in elements that already use a smaller font size, such as infoboxes, navboxes and references sections", per MOS:ACCESS#Font size and MOS:SMALLFONT. Using this template within an infobox would produce a font size 75% of the page default, well below the 85% minimum specified in the linked guidelines.

The only parameter is the content and may contain templates, images, etc. if a block needs to be wrapped in this template and contains such elements. Note that if the = character appears in the content, the parameter must be explicitly specified as |1=.

Do not use this template to wrap multiple lines; doing so will cause Linter errors. If you need to wrap multiple list items or multiple paragraphs, use {{smalldiv}} around the entire block, or wrap each list item or paragraph separately.

Thus checkY Good practice:

input shows
What a wonderful world What a wonderful world
{{small|What a wonderful world}} What a wonderful world
{{small|1=3 + 2 = 5}} 3 + 2 = 5
{{small|1=103}}
{{small|1=+ 2}}
——
{{small|1=105}}
103

+ 2

——

105

Template:Not done:

{{small|
*One
*Two
*Three}}

checkY Do this instead:

{{smalldiv|
*One
*Two
*Three}}

Template data

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TemplateData for Small

A template shortcut for the "small" HTML tag that makes the font smaller

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Text1

The text that you'd like to be made smaller

Stringrequired

Tracking category

See also

Font size templates
Code for inline content Code for block content Size Result
{{small|text}}
{{smaller|text}}
{{smalldiv|text}} 85% text
{{resize|text}} {{resizediv|text}} 90% text
{{midsize|text}} 92% text
none none 100% text
{{large|text}}
{{larger|text}}
{{big|text}}
{{largediv|text}} 120% text
{{huge|text}} 180% text
{{resize|x%|text}} {{resizediv|x%|text}} custom varies
{{font|size=x%}} custom varies