Template:Colon/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Colon.
It contains usage information, categories and other content or metadata that is not part of the original template.

This template produces a colon (:) character in the form of the wikipedia:character entity reference :. It is useful for times when directly entering a colon would trigger some wiki markup behavior.

Note: Due to technical limitations it is not possible to create a shortcut to this template called {{:}}.

TemplateData

A template to show :

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
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See also

• wikipedia:List of XML and HTML character entity references