Template talk:Template shortcut

message: Please sync from Template:Template shortcut/sandbox, where I've created an accessible version, using HTML list markup, styled with no bullets. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pigsonthewing (talk • contribs) 11:17, 17 January 2012‎
:Yes please sync from the sandbox, as requested above. The new "plainlist" functionality is present, but also now, templates are in monospace, which not only makes them larger and clearer (the current styling, identical to , would be acceptable for WP: shortcuts in all caps but not for lowercase template code) but is appropriate for wikitext markup. — This, that, and the other (talk)
::OK, having verified at Template:Template shortcut/testcases,  Done. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:14, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plainlist 

message: Reason of the request: The current one always prints "blue links" (see the right demo), but it's inconvenient. 
I ask to adopt my fix which supports red links, created in the sandbox. See . It also has a slight change: it's simplified a little by replacing { with .  is only useful for a demo in the template page itself, Template:Template shortcut, but the documentation suffices. Accordingly, the body is put inside of  to make it look better in the template page.
A proof that it correctly works:
Thanks, dear administrator, and thanks User:Redrose64 for discussion.
--Ahora (talk) 05:56, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Partly done: I've done it, but I tweaked it just a little so that it shows  if no parameters are specified. This will look better on the template page and should keep the template from breaking if any existing transclusions haven't specified the first parameter. Good work on the code, by the way - that has been bothering me for a while. — Mr. Stradivarius (have a chat) 13:51, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 2 November 2012 

message: Can we change the first 0.3em in the margin: value to some kind of 0?  The idea is that things like this would line up:
—SamB (talk) 19:33, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: , why does it matter if they line up or not?  The reason for the 0.3 top margin as far as I know is so the shortcuts will show properly when  is used to navigate to a specific section of a page. —  (t • e • c) 20:09, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, I guess it's not too big a deal; I'm certainly less bothered by it than by what browsers do with this HTML:<input type="checkbox" /><label>Foo</label>
—SamB (talk) 00:35, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected edit request on 23 February 2014 

message: This sandbox version of the template has had the (optional) parameter top added to the table styling (primarily so that top=0 places the template flush with the beginning of e.g. a section) and the colon following "Shortcut/Shortcuts" removed (as superfluous, especially as there's nothing else in the notice other than the shortcut/shortcuts provided). If this doesn't meet with disapproval, I'll copy it to the live template a few days hence. Sardanaphalus (talk) 12:39, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: No concerns here, although top=0 is not really standard. How about just top=no, or use ? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:49, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

text: * top=0 follows the pattern at  – perhaps that should change too? Sardanaphalus (talk) 09:47, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "top" parameter, no colon 

message: Recently, {{tl]shortcut}}, , and  had their styles adjusted; see Template_talk:Shortcut#Visual_redesign_proposal. I propose to similarly adjust this template. I've made the changes to this template's sandbox, see Template:Template shortcut/testcases for a comparison to the live template and to . - Evad37 [talk] 01:38, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: - Evad37 [talk] 13:15, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed style adjustment 

message: See what happens when Template:* is used in this template? LA (T) @ 09:38, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The issue here is that the MediaWiki parser won't accept an external link whose text consists solely of an asterisk which is programmatically generated (e.g. [ ]). It doesn't appear to exhibit this behavior when the asterisk isn't programmatically generated (e.g. [ *]). I've filled a bug with the development team. TheDragonFire (talk) 12:47, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:* does not produce proper shortcut 

message: This template is designed to be placed into template documentation. By definition, a shortcut redirects to the main template, so a wikilink for a shortcut is pointless - it just takes people back to the template they're already looking at. So I suggest that the shortcuts in the displayed list of shortcuts should not be wikilinked. Colonies Chris (talk) 13:02, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it can also be used in other places (eg WP:TITLECON). Also, no harm but help in the fact that a one sees a full-name template with its—well, shortcut name. -DePiep (talk) 18:12, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not  linking shortcuts 

message: Template:Template shortcut has been listed at Templates for discussion (nomination), but was protected so could not be tagged. Please add:

to the top of the page to complete the nomination. Thank you. JsfasdF252 (talk) 21:19, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:19, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request to complete TfD nomination