Template:Dialog/page/doc
 | This is a documentation subpage for Template:Dialog/page It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
 | This is a dialog formatting template. It is meant for use on interactive dialog pages, and may involve interactions between wiki markup, HTML, and JavaScript. Please carefully test any edits before making them. |
 | This template is used on approximately 700 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them. |
This template guarantees a page name has a colon somewhere in it, by adding one at the front if necessary.
Usage
editApply this template to a parameter literal value for {{dialog/button}} if the literal value is meant to be a page name, but might not contain a colon. ({{dialog/button}} uses the presence of a colon to identify whether a parameter literal value is a page name that ought to be linked via {{hidden use}}.)
{{dialog/page|foo:bar}}
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would produce | foo:bar |
{{dialog/page|foobar}}
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would produce | :foobar |