Template:Quikflag
Template documentationThe flag Template:Quikflag displays a nation or location flag, of a specified size, very quickly, with no extra templates being spawned and transcluded into the page.
- Usage: {{quikflag |place}}
- {{quikflag |place |n}}
- {{quikflag |place |link=placename2}}
- {{quikflag |image=Place_flag.jpg |size=24px }}
- Usage: {{quikflag |place}}
The following parameters are allowed:
- size - the size, such as 30px (default: 22x20px)
- alt - the image alternative text for text-only users and mouse-over display
- link - the wikilink text when clicking on image (default: a wikilink to the place name)
- 1=n - parameter 1 as "n" shows name after the flag.
- 2=n - parameter 2 as "n" also shows name after flag.
- border - any other text (default: border)
- image - the name of any image file to display (not just a flag)
The typical flag-image name is in the form "Flag of (...).svg" where an optional word "the" is inserted if needed in the name, but use image=xx.jpg for other flag names. Other special nation or city names are detected and substituted when needed.
Examples: The following are examples of the template:
- {{Quikflag |United Kingdom}}:
- {{Quikflag |Australia}}:
- {{quikflag |France}} {{quikflag |Germany}} - {{quikflag |Spain}}:
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- {{quikflag |Alabama}} / {{quikflag |Texas}} / {{quikflag |New York}}:
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- {{quikflag |Argentina (1916)|size=100px}}: File:Flag of Argentina (1916).svg
- {{Quikflag |United Kingdom}}:
.svg){kind=link}
If no spaces are placed between templates, then all the flags will be aligned together. There are many hundreds of possible flags. See index list: "Special:PrefixIndex/File:Flag of".
Comparison to Template:flag[edit source]
The main purpose of {{quikflag}} is to display a flag, by name suffix, very quickly, as a short entry in a page. However, the purpose of {{flag}} is to provide the flag for a nation-code or name, and display the official name of that nation. Consequently, {{quikflag}} can display thousands of flags, because it does not check the nation-code to restrict which flags are shown. Note, in the following 2 examples, how Template:flag does not handle flags of "Persia (1906)" or "Paraguay 1811 to 1812" which can be displayed quickly by {{quikflag}}, but {{flag}} generates errors of "Template:Country data...":
- {{flag|Persia (1906) }} {{flag|Paraguay 1811 to 1812}}
- {{quikflag|Persia (1906)|size=50px}} {{quikflag|Paraguay 1811 to 1812 |size=50px}}
.svg){kind=link}
Part of the reason that {{quikflag}} is so quick, displaying a flag using no other templates, is because {{quikflag}} does not lookup nation-code entries. The 2 templates have very different purposes.