Template talk:Item link
Color options?
As far as I know, the only ways to change the color of an item link's font are:
[[Example|<font color="X">Example</font>]][[Example|<span style="color:X">Example</span>]]
It gets bigger if you make it a link to a translated article...
[[Example/es|<font color="X">Ejemplo</font>]][[Example/es|<span style="color:X">Ejemplo</span>]]
...and even bigger if you make it a link with automatic translation (for something like a template).
[[Example{{if lang}}|<font color="X">{{item name|Example}}</font>]][[Example{{if lang}}|<span style="color:X">{{item name|Example}}</span>]]
Meanwhile, {{class link}} has a "built-in" color=X option that allows us to change the link's color much more easily - just type in a color's name ("yellow", "lime" etc) or code, and there we go.
Instead of [[Class{{if lang}}|<font color="X">{{class name|class}}</font>]]
we can just have {{class link|class|color=X}} (and it works in any language).
Now, please compare these two versions of the same table:
I think it goes without saying that the white text is easier to read than the blue text.
I tried making the item links in this navbox white (as well as the dots separating them) so that reading it would be easier as well, but I always ended up breaking it (not to mention the code became hard to understand). Having an option like the one in {{class link}} would certainly make this an easier job. - BrazilianNut (talk) 02:18, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
