Template:Button

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Text

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Goal

This template is used in running text to illustrate button presses and lit indicators. It allows the use of alternate colours and border widths.

Usage

{{button|text|t=black|c=white|b=black|w=1}}

The only mandatory parameter is text.

text

Button text

t

Text colour, defaults to black

c

Button cap colour, defaults to white

b

Border colour, defaults to black

w

Border width in pixels, defaults to 1

Colours

The template uses cascading style sheet (CSS) colours, and there are five ways to define the colours:

1. Through colour keywords (either of aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, orange, purple, red, silver, teal, white or yellow);
2. as three hexadecimal values #rgb, like #F00 for red,
3. as six hexadecimal values #rrggbb, like #00FF00 for green,
4. as three integers 0-255 rgb(r,g,b), like rgb(0,255,255) for yellow
5. as three percentages rgb(r, g, b), like rgb(100%, 0%, 0%) for red

In other words F = FF = 255 = 100%.

Examples

{{button|HDG}}

HDG

{{button|'''ALT'''|t=black|c=#AFA|b=gray|w=2}}

ALT

{{button|'''ILS'''|t=#AFA|c=gray|b=black|w=2}}

ILS

Known issues

• There seems to be a problem adding parameters to the style attribute, in which case this would have been a futile exercise...

• In some cases workarounds will be required. One of them is for example text containing a pipe character (|) which would require you to insert {{!}} instead of |, since using a "|" inside a template will break it.

• If a line breaks right before the template the left border will stay on the previous line.