Template:Mono

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This template is used on many pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

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This template uses TemplateStyles:

Template:Mono/styles.css

Notice

This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see Wikipedia:COinS.

Usage

{{mono|text to format here}}

renders as:

text to format here

This template is for formatting short bits of content (the only parameter) as monospaced (nonproportional) text. It is simply a quick shorthand for the necessary CSS code. It is a replacement for <tt>...</tt>, which is an obsolete element under HTML5. (Non-conforming features)

This template should be used where the content is being rendered in monospaced text for purely stylistic/display reasons, where this display has no particular semantic significance.

It should not be used to indicate information with these semantics:

source code, use {{code}} or <code>...</code> instead
variables or variable input, use {{var}} or <var>...</var> instead
keyboard input, use {{kbd}} or <kbd>...</kbd> instead
sample output, use {{samp}} or <samp>...</samp> instead

It cannot be used to mark up multiple paragraphs, sections or other block elements, as it uses <span>, which is an inline element. Use {{monodiv}} and {{pre}} for multiple blocks of text, or use multiple instances of {{Mono}} for each individual line.

When the content ends with a single closing curly brace (}), the content should be followed by <nowiki/>, for example, to mark up {foo}, use {{mono|{foo}<nowiki/>}} or {{mono|<nowiki>{foo}</nowiki>}}.

If the content contains pipe characters (|) not surrounded by <nowiki>...</nowiki>, they must be escaped with | or {{!}}.

Parameters

There are two parameters:

|1= or unnamed: The content to format as monospaced. If the content contains a = character, the parameter must be numbered or the template will break. (The parameter does not need to be numbered if the = character is surrounded by <nowiki>...</nowiki>, or if it is escaped as =.) For backward compatibility with an old, merged-in template, this parameter can also be called |2=.
|needs_review=yes: Used (e.g. by bots or AWB scripts) to indicate replacement of now-obsolete <tt>...</tt> markup with {{mono|...}} markup. This template displays nothing and presently does no categorization, though a cleanup category can be created if necessary. It indicates that the markup may need to be changed to something more semantically meaningful, such as <code>...</code>, <samp>...</samp>, or <kbd>...</kbd>.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData.

TemplateData for Mono

Script error: No such module "Format TemplateData".

Usage

Wraps a short span of text in <syntaxhighlight> tags (see mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight). This template should be used for short samples; longer content should use <pre>...</pre> or <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>. See Help:Wiki markup for an explanation of what the various tags do.

If the content includes an equals sign (=), you must specify the parameter explicitly: {{code|1=date=30 Feb 2010}}.

The template uses the <syntaxhighlight> tag with the attribute inline=1. This works like the combination of the <code> and <nowiki> tags, applied to the expanded wikitext. For example, {{code|some '''wiki''' text}} will not render the word "wiki" in bold, and will render the tripled-single-quotes:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

However, {{code|a {{template}} call}} will still invoke the template:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

Use <nowiki>...</nowiki> around the template name to avoid this problem:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

When used inline with regular text, {{code}} generally looks best and is easiest to read when it is explicitly spaced apart from the regular text:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

is well spaced:

foo Template loop detected: Template:Code quux.

versus:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

which is going to be visually confusing for many:

foo Template loop detected: Template:Code quux.

because "foo" and "Template loop detected: Template:Code" will seem more closely associated than "Template loop detected: Template:Code" and "Template loop detected: Template:Code"; the width of the space character in a monospaced font is almost always larger than in a proportional font.

Use parameter {{{2}}} (unnamed, as |2=, or more explicitly as |lang=) to specify a language for mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight. This option defaults to plain-text, i.e. no highlighting. There is no highlighting option for wikitext as a markup language, though Template loop detected: Template:Code and Template loop detected: Template:Code are valid values, as are Template loop detected: Template:Code, Template loop detected: Template:Code, Template loop detected: Template:Code, Template loop detected: Template:Code, Template loop detected: Template:Code and many others. Attempting to use an invalid one causes a list of valid ones to be displayed in place of the template output, when the page is previewed or saved.

This template does not need to be substituted.

Examples

Markup	Renders asScript error: No such module "For loop".

Included templates

Embedded templates do not function as expected inside {{code}}; for longer, free-form blocks of code, which can contain templates such as {{var}} and {{samp}}, use <code>...</code> as a wrapper instead of this template.

Templates used inside {{code}} expose the rendered HTML— this can be useful. For example:

Markup	Renders asScript error: No such module "For loop".

The above example shows the HTML rendered by the citation template, including the hidden metadata.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData.

TemplateData for Mono

Script error: No such module "Format TemplateData".

Usage

If the content includes an equals sign (=), you must specify the parameter explicitly: {{code|1=date=30 Feb 2010}}.

Template loop detected: Template:Code

However, {{code|a {{template}} call}} will still invoke the template:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

Use <nowiki>...</nowiki> around the template name to avoid this problem:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

When used inline with regular text, {{code}} generally looks best and is easiest to read when it is explicitly spaced apart from the regular text:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

is well spaced:

foo Template loop detected: Template:Code quux.

versus:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

which is going to be visually confusing for many:

foo Template loop detected: Template:Code quux.

This template does not need to be substituted.

Examples

Markup	Renders asScript error: No such module "For loop".

Included templates

Templates used inside {{code}} expose the rendered HTML— this can be useful. For example:

Markup	Renders asScript error: No such module "For loop".

The above example shows the HTML rendered by the citation template, including the hidden metadata.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData.

TemplateData for Mono

Script error: No such module "Format TemplateData".

Usage

If the content includes an equals sign (=), you must specify the parameter explicitly: {{code|1=date=30 Feb 2010}}.

Template loop detected: Template:Code

However, {{code|a {{template}} call}} will still invoke the template:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

Use <nowiki>...</nowiki> around the template name to avoid this problem:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

When used inline with regular text, {{code}} generally looks best and is easiest to read when it is explicitly spaced apart from the regular text:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

is well spaced:

foo Template loop detected: Template:Code quux.

versus:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

which is going to be visually confusing for many:

foo Template loop detected: Template:Code quux.

This template does not need to be substituted.

Examples

Markup	Renders asScript error: No such module "For loop".

Included templates

Templates used inside {{code}} expose the rendered HTML— this can be useful. For example:

Markup	Renders asScript error: No such module "For loop".

The above example shows the HTML rendered by the citation template, including the hidden metadata.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData.

TemplateData for Mono

Script error: No such module "Format TemplateData".

Usage

If the content includes an equals sign (=), you must specify the parameter explicitly: {{code|1=date=30 Feb 2010}}.

Template loop detected: Template:Code

However, {{code|a {{template}} call}} will still invoke the template:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

Use <nowiki>...</nowiki> around the template name to avoid this problem:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

When used inline with regular text, {{code}} generally looks best and is easiest to read when it is explicitly spaced apart from the regular text:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

is well spaced:

foo Template loop detected: Template:Code quux.

versus:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

which is going to be visually confusing for many:

foo Template loop detected: Template:Code quux.

This template does not need to be substituted.

Examples

Markup	Renders asScript error: No such module "For loop".

Included templates

Templates used inside {{code}} expose the rendered HTML— this can be useful. For example:

Markup	Renders asScript error: No such module "For loop".

The above example shows the HTML rendered by the citation template, including the hidden metadata.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData.

TemplateData for Mono

Script error: No such module "Format TemplateData".

Usage

If the content includes an equals sign (=), you must specify the parameter explicitly: {{code|1=date=30 Feb 2010}}.

Template loop detected: Template:Code

However, {{code|a {{template}} call}} will still invoke the template:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

Use <nowiki>...</nowiki> around the template name to avoid this problem:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

When used inline with regular text, {{code}} generally looks best and is easiest to read when it is explicitly spaced apart from the regular text:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

is well spaced:

foo Template loop detected: Template:Code quux.

versus:

Template loop detected: Template:Code

which is going to be visually confusing for many:

foo Template loop detected: Template:Code quux.

This template does not need to be substituted.

Examples

Markup	Renders asScript error: No such module "For loop".

Included templates

Templates used inside {{code}} expose the rendered HTML— this can be useful. For example:

Markup	Renders asScript error: No such module "For loop".

The above example shows the HTML rendered by the citation template, including the hidden metadata.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData.

TemplateData for Mono

Script error: No such module "Format TemplateData".

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