Template talk:SpecialCharsNote

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Use at top to link to a FOOTER under the banner "Special characters". Place SpecialChars tag under the Footer.

[edit] New anchor suggestion

Also posted in Template talk:SpecialChars.

It would be possible to specify an anchor by adding the id="????" attribute to the <div> tag in {{SpecialChars}}. This would remove the necessity of adding a special header—which often looks clunkyanyway—and ensure that anywhere {{SpecialChars}} and {{SpecialCharsNote}} are used together they will work properly. I suggest using "SpecialCharsTemplate" as the anchor text. I also suggest altering the wording slightly so that people actually expect to click for an explanation.

{{SpecialCharsNote}} would therefore contain:

:This article contains special characters: see [[#SpecialCharsTemplate|explnatory note]].

and {{SpecialChars}} would start:

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background-color: #f3f9ff; margin: 1em 2.5% 0 2.5%; padding: 0 10px; border: 1px solid #aaa;id="SpecialCharsTemplate">

—Phil | Talk 14:09, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Usage

In seems many uses of this template are incomplete and miss the second template {{SpecialChars}}. WilliamKF 03:06, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Also it seems like having the explaination on each page is excessive, why not just have the {{SpecialCharsNote}} suffice with it linking to a single location instead of to a footnote on the same page at the bottom. Seems like a waste of space and a distraction to the articles using it. WilliamKF 03:37, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Agreed.. how about making it link to meta:Help:Special characters? Mlm42 12:48, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nominated for deletion

This template was nominated for deletion on March 4, 2006. The result was keep. The archived discussion can be found here. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:36, 11 March 2006 (UTC)