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.

 Note: Due to technical limitations it is not possible to create a shortcut to this template called {{:}}.

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Colon

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Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
No parameters specified

See also

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