Template:Small/sandbox

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This is the

template sandbox page for Template:Small (diff).
See also the companion subpage for test cases

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This template is used on approximately 621,000 pages, or roughly 1% of all pages.
To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

Redirects

{{Smaller}}
{{Petit}}
{{HW-small}}
{{Sma}}

Usage

This template is a replacement for <small>...</small>.

Remember "Avoid using smaller font sizes in elements that already use a smaller font size, such as infoboxes, navboxes and references sections", per

MOS:SMALLFONT

. Using this template within an infobox would produce a font size 75% of the page default, well below the 85% minimum specified in the linked guidelines.

The only parameter is the content and may contain templates, images, etc. if a block needs to be wrapped in this template and contains such elements. Note that if the = character appears in the content, the parameter must be explicitly specified as |1=.

Do not use this template to wrap multiple lines; doing so will cause Linter errors. If you need to wrap multiple list items or multiple paragraphs, use {{smalldiv}} around the entire block, or wrap each list item or paragraph separately.

Thus Good practice:

input	shows
`What a wonderful world`	What a wonderful world
`{{small\|What a wonderful world}}`	What a wonderful world
`{{small\|1=3 + 2 = 5}}`	3 + 2 = 5
{{small\|1=103}} {{small\|1=+ 2}} —— {{small\|1=105}}	103 + 2 —— 105

Don't do this:

{{small|
*One
*Two
*Three}}

Do this instead:

{{smalldiv|
*One
*Two
*Three}}

Template data

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Small in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Small

A template shortcut for the "small" HTML tag that makes the font smaller

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Text	`1`	The text that you'd like to be made smaller	String	required

Tracking category

Category:Pages using small with an empty input parameter (1,697)

Code for inline content	Code for block content	Size	Result
`{{small\|text}}` `{{smaller\|text}}`	`{{smalldiv\|text}}`	85%	text
`{{resize\|text}}`	`{{resizediv\|text}}`	90%	text
`{{midsize\|text}}`		92%	text
none	none	100%	text
`{{large\|text}}` `{{larger\|text}}` `{{big\|text}}`	`{{largediv\|text}}`	120%	text
`{{huge\|text}}`		180%	text
`{{resize\|x%\|text}}`	`{{resizediv\|x%\|text}}`	custom	varies
`{{font\|size=x%}}`		custom	varies