Template:Sometimes

Sometimes

Template:Documentation/start box2 The templates in this series are designed to be used in a table to make a cell with text in that cell, with an appropriately colored background. They are commonly used in comparison tables. Most of these templates should not be used simply to produce a background color, use them according to their meaning.

For example, makes a cell with a green background. The text in the cell is taken from the first parameter; {{yes|Sure}} would output "Sure" otherwise it defaults to "Yes". Most templates allow authors to override the default text in this way, some require text put after the template call and some also need a vertical bar in between: {{table cell template}} text or {{table cell template}} | text. This information, the colors and default texts are found in the table below.

File:Ambox warning pn.svg Important: If you want to use other attributes for the table cells, e.g. colspan, rowspan, or style, they need to be put before the template call, and there must be no vertical bar (aka pipe) | in-between them:

Yes	No	—
Yes/No

...
!{{Yes}} ||{{No}} ||rowspan=2 {{n/a}}
|-
|colspan=2 style="border:solid 3px Maroon" {{Yes-No}}
...

Templates

Table cell templates

Class	Default		Customized
	Syntax	Preview	Syntax	Preview
table-rh	Row header	Row header	Row header	Row header
	Row header	Row header	Row header	Row header
table-yes		Yes		customized text
		File:Green check.svg Yes		File:Green check.svg customized text
		Yes		customized text
		Yes		customized text
table-maybe		Maybe		customized text
table-no		No		customized text
		No		customized text
		No		customized text
		Eliminated		dropped out
		Lost		missing
		Active (12%)
		Safe		protected
		No		customized text
table-active		Active		live
table-siteactive		Active		up
		Coming soon		second half of the year
table-siteinactive		Inactive		down
table-success		Success		mission complete
		Operational		returning data
table-failure		Failure		wrong orbit
table-yes2				text
		Good		A
				ya
				ya
		Won		winner
		1		gold
		2		silver
		3		bronze
		W		win
		D		draw
		L		loss
table-no2				text
				na
				na
		Nominated		5
		Not nominated		not selected
		Shortlisted		proposed
		Longlisted		rejected
		TBA		to be announced
table-partial		Partial		almost done
		Regional		Uyghur
				possibly
		Partial success		reached orbit and returned pictures
		Partial failure		Cubesat not deployed
		Neutral		C
		Yes/No		yes with an if; no with a but
		Some		many
		Pending		awaiting
		Sometimes		occasionally
		Rarely		seldom
		Usually		commonly
		Unofficial		de facto
		Unofficial		de facto
		Nonpartisan		impartial
table-any		Any		anyone
table-automatic		Perhaps		maybe
table-draw				1:1
table-noAttempt		No attempt		No landing attempted
table-na		—		unavailable
		Varies		differs
		Non-album single		Non-album single
		Unreleased		shelved
		N/A		banned
		—
		Vac­ant		missing
table-unknown		Un­known		?
		?		not sure
table-included		Included		incorporated
noresult		No result		NR
table-planned		Planned		July 2028
table-scheduled		Scheduled		3 March 2027
table-software		Beta		preview
		Experimental		lab
		Nightly build		dev
		Release candidate		RC
		Open source		software libre
		Free		empty
		Proprietary		custom extension
		Non-free		paid
		Needs		req.
table-depends		Depends		vendor-defined
table-dropped		Dropped		discontinued
		Terminated		fired
incorrect		Incorrect		wrong
table-debate		P		present
		A		absent
		I		invited
		O		invited to other debate
		N		not invited
		NV		not voting
		W		withdrawn
		Out		out of race
table-cast		Main		text
		Also starring		costar
		Recurring		regular guest
		Guest		victim
		Does not appear		ensemble
		Does not appear		cast
		removed		edited
		Finalist		contender
		3rd Place		third place
		exempt		B.Exempt
				rescheduled
		Runner-up		2nd Place
		Quit		left
no class		Not yet		NY
		Optional		non-mandatory
	%	100%	%	100%
	%	75%	%	73–78%
	%	25%
	%	0%	%	0%
		90		90
		58		58
		25		25
		Some text

Code

Common code to most if not all the templates in this series:

style="background: #abcdef; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: {{{align|center}}}; {{{style|text-transform: capitalize;}}}" class="automatic table-automatic"| {{{1|text}}}

Code specific to this template:

style="background: #FFB; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="partial table-partial"|Sometimes

Creating new templates

To make a new table cell template you can use:

{{subst:Table cell templates|text= default text |bg= background color |class= a class name without prefix |align= standard horizontal alignment}}

You should leave out the align parameter and often the class parameter is unnecessary, too.

Add the new template to the table in the common documentation afterwards. Please consider reusing one of the other templates and please choose the color sensibly.

If you find a table cell template that does not take a parameter and you want to be able to change the text in the cell, do not duplicate the template! Instead, edit the template and change the text to a default parameter substitution. For example, if a template's text is Dropped, change that to {{{1|Dropped}}}.

style="background: #abcdef; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: {{{align|center}}}; {{{style|}}}" class="automatic table-automatic"| {{{1|text}}}

Choosing a color

When changing or creating a new template, follow the use of colour guidelines and the color accessibility guidelines when choosing the background color and, sometimes, the text color. Many of these templates can be used with links to other articles or references, so the links should be clearly identifiable against the background color. You can check contrast level using the WebAIM contrast checker by setting the foreground color to the blue link color. Contrast should be at the minimum WCAG AA level and, whenever possible, at WCAG AAA level. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Colors has a set of colors that comply with WCAG AAA and WCAG AA for unvisited links and normal text.

Color subpage

All templates should either have a /bgcolor subpage that contains nothing but a valid CSS color code, possibly wrapped in nowiki tags, e.g. #BFD, which can be included with background: {{/bgcolor}}; in the style attribute, or they should reference another template's subpage, e.g. background: {{Template:Yes2/bgcolor}};. Alternatively, the /bgcolor subpage may redirect to another color code subpage: #REDIRECT [[yes2/bgcolor]].

This way, pages that are using these templates may also use {{legend}} and similar templates which can reference the actual color: {{legend|{{yes2/bgcolor}}|supported}}

TemplateData

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TemplateData for Sometimes

One of several templates for styling individual table cells with standard contents and colors.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
text	1	text to be displayed instead of the default; if this doesn't work put the text after the template, possibly with a vertical bar | in between Default (template dependent)	Content	optional
horizontal align	align	text alignment inside the cell, either 'left', 'right', 'center' or 'justified' Suggested values left center right justified Default center	String	optional
style	style	a semicolon-separated list of additional CSS rules to be applied to the table cell Default (template dependent)	String	optional
background color	color	a valid CSS color value or name to override the standard cell background, only available with some templates Default (template dependent)	Line	optional

See also

• {{Change}} – calculates, displays and color-codes changes between two values
• {{BSD-lic}} – specialized redirect for
• {{GPL-lic}} – specialized redirect for
• {{LGPL-lic}} – specialized redirect for
• {{Active}} / {{No result}} / {{Eliminated}} for comparison tables