Template:Legend

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Shows a legend row with a colored box.

  People Before Profit: 2 seats

  Socialists Green Party: 4 seats

  Labour Party : 260 seats

  Liberal Democrats: 10 seats

  Robin of Loxley : 1 seat

  Templar Party: 8 seats

  Neutral Party: 6 seats

  Reform UK: 10 seats

  Democratic Unionist Party: 20 seats

  Conservative Party : 335 seats

Examples

Use in text

{{legend|black|Africa}}
{{legend|green|Americas}}
{{legend|blue|Oceania}}
{{legend|#ffa|Europe|outline=silver}}
{{legend|#ff2800|Asia|outline=#A2A9B1}}  (#A2A9B1 is the wikitables border color.)

  Africa

  Americas

  Oceania

  Europe

  Asia

Use in captions

Markup	Renders as
[[File:Celts in Europe.png|upright=.9|thumb|right|The Celts in Europe, past and present: {{legend|#1a8000|Present-day Celtic-speaking areas}} {{legend|#27c600|Other parts of the six most commonly recognized "Celtic nations" and where a Celtic language is spoken but not the dominating language}} {{legend|#97ffb6|Other parts of Europe once peopled by Celts; modern-day inhabitants of many of these areas often claim a Celtic heritage and/or culture}} {{legend|#D2FFD2|Lusitanian area of Iberia, "Celticity" uncertain}} {{legend|yellow|The core Hallstatt territory, expansion before 500 BC}} ]]	The Celts in Europe, past and present:   Present-day Celtic-speaking areas   Other parts of the six most commonly recognized "Celtic nations" and where a Celtic language is spoken but not the dominating language   Other parts of Europe once peopled by Celts; modern-day inhabitants of many of these areas often claim a Celtic heritage and/or culture   Lusitanian area of Iberia, "Celticity" uncertain   The core Hallstatt territory, expansion before 500 BC

Full parameter list

{{legend
| [legend box's colo(u)r]
| [text following legend box]
| outline =  <!--colo(u)r of border around legend box-->
| border =   <!--use to specify custom CSS styling for border (overrides 'outline')-->
| color =    <!--colo(u)r of 'text'-->
| size =     <!--'text' font-size-->
| text =     <!--to place text inside the legend box-->
}}

Limitations

Using certain special characters in |text= that have meaning in wikitext can cause unexpected results. To use * in |text=, use |text={{asterisk}}. To use # in |text=, use |text={{number sign}}.

See also

• Variant blocks
  • {{legend striped}}, two colors, for striped color areas
  • {{legend inline}}, uses display:inline to avoid line breaks after each legend
  • {{legend0}}, without the line-feed
  • {{leftlegend}}, with text-align set to left
  • {{color box}} and {{RouteBox}}, with text placed inside the colored legend and article linking
• {{legend-line}}, legends for lines
• {{image key}}, allows legend templates being used in image captions to use multiple columns
• Web colors

TemplateData

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TemplateData for Legend

Shows a legend row with a colored box and a caption.

Parametri template[Modifica dati del modello]

Parametro		Descrizione	Tipo	Stato
Color	1	The color for the legend entry, in any CSS format Esempio "#6D6E00", "#ffa", "yellow"	Linea	obbligatorio
Caption	2	Label for the legend entry Esempio "soda" is most common	Stringa	consigliato
CSS border style	border	CSS style for the legend entry's border	Stringa	facoltativo
Entry outline	outline	CSS color for the outline of the legend entry Esempio silver	Linea	facoltativo
Text in the entry	text	Text to be displayed in the legend entry box, i.e. within the color specified Esempio Af	Linea	facoltativo
Text color	textcolor	CSS color of text inside the legend's colored box	Stringa	facoltativo
size	size	Font size of the legend entry, including colored box	Stringa	facoltativo

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