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This template produces a colon (:) character in the form of the 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 {{:}}. {{58}} is available as an alternative.
TemplateData
[edit]This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Colon in articles based on its TemplateData.
TemplateData for Colon
A template to show :
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See also
[edit]- Category:Typing-aid templates and Category:Character-substitution templates for other templates producing characters.
- List of XML and HTML character entity references
- {{indent}}