Template:Highlight

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• {{hlTemplate:Hl}}
• {{hiliteTemplate:Hilite}}

For adding yellow highlight to specified inline text. The highlight color can be changed, and the highlight can also be set to expire at a certain date. Please keep template usage to talk pages only.

Usage

{{highlight | text | color (optional) | expiration (optional) }}

Parameters

• text (parameter 1): Enter the text to be highlighted.

Optional parameters

These parameters are optional, but unused parameters must be separated by a pipe (see examples below):

• color (parameter 2): Colors may be specified by word (e.g., "red", "blue", "lightgreen") or in hexadecimal format (e.g., "#FF0066", "#C0C0C0"). If no value is given for the color, the template defaults to yellow.

• expiration (parameter 3): Highlights may be set to expire on a certain date, which leaves the text as-is, but removes the highlight color. The expiration value can be specified in any format.

Examples

code	output	notes
{{highlight|text}}	text	The default highlight color is yellow
{{highlight|text|lightblue}}	text	The second parameter is the highlight color
{{highlight|text|lightblue|2011-01-01}}	text	This is not highlighted since 1 January 2011 is in the past
{{highlight|text|lightblue|2025-09-12}}	text	There is no highlighting on the expiration date (purge this page's server cache if today's date is not shown)
{{highlight|text|#00FF00|1 January 2099}}	text	This is highlighted since 1 January 2099 is in the future
{{highlight|text||January 1, 2099}}	text	Note the color parameter, left blank, is still represented with a pipe (followed by the expiration parameter pipe)

Using the Codex Design Style Guide for Wikimedia background colors:

• {{highlight|Success|var(--background-color-success-subtle, #eaecf0)}} → Success
• {{highlight|Error|var(--background-color-error-subtle--active, #ffc8bd)}} → Error
• {{highlight|Warning|var(--background-color-warning-subtle, #fdf2d5)}} → Warning
• {{highlight|Content added|var(--background-color-content-added, #a3d3ff)}} → Content added
• {{highlight|Content removed|var(--background-color-content-removed, #ffe49c)}} → Content removed

See also

• {{Highlight round}} – highlights the included text using a rounded box with shadows
• {{tq}} – for quoting text on talk pages
• {{font color}}

Highlights the given text.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Text to be highlighted	1 text	no description Example Some text goes here	Content	required
Highlight color	2 color	CSS color to be used for highlight, like lightblue or #FF0066 Default yellow Example lightblue	Unknown	optional
Expiration date of highlight	3 expiration	After this date, the text will remain but the highlight color will not display. Example 2029-09-01	Date	optional

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