Template:Colourswatch/1

This box shaws the colour blae.

This template puts a coloured box on the richt side o the page unner the caption "This box shaws the colour..." See the ensaumple tae the richt.

There are twa weys tae uise this template. You can uise the template aither wi or wioot a special code.

Wioot a code

This box shaws the colour reid.

Some colours daena need ony special code.

For ensaumple, if you type this on the page,

{{colourswatch|red}}

ye'll get a reid box like the ane tae the richt.

With a code

This box shaws the colour amber.

Ither colours dae need a special code. The code that this template uises is cried a "hex triplet".

A hex triplet is a sax-digit, three-byte hexadecimal nummer uised in HTML, CSS, an ither computin applications, for tae represent colours.

First write the name o the colour. Next write the hex triplet (you daena need tae write "#").

For ensaumple, if ye type this on the page,

{{colourswatch|amber|FFBF00}}

ye'll get an amber box like the ane tae the richt.