Template:Colon

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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.

File:Pictogram voting info.svg Note: Due to technical limitations it is not possible to create a shortcut to this template called {{:}}.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

TemplateData for Colon

<TemplateData>{"description":"A template to show :","params":{}}</TemplateData>

See also

• Category:Typing-aid templates and Category:Character-substitution templates for other templates producing characters.
• List of XML and HTML character entity references
• {{indent}}

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