Editing Eurovision Wiki:Village pump (technical) (section)

== "a series" link font colour for Template:Sidebar person ==

Recently a parameter was added to {{tl|Sidebar person}} to allow the "a series" text to link to the main category for the person, much as it's linked in sidebars like {{tl|Shinto}} or {{tl|Liberalism sidebar}}. Unfortunately the link remains blue, ignoring the font colour which is applied elsewhere. I've tried various things in the template sandbox, but none worked. Could someone better at programming templates take a look and see if there's a way for the link to use {{para|font_color}} when {{para|series_category|yes}} is set? – [[User:Scyrme|Scyrme]] ([[User talk:Scyrme|talk]]) 00:01, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
:{{ping|Scyrme}} Link colors can only be changed inside a piped link. [[Special:ExpandTemplates]] shows {{tl|Shinto}} produces  <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Shinto| <span style="color:White;">a series</span>]]</nowiki></code> <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/PrimeHunter|contribs]]) 01:26, 15 March 2026 (UTC)</small>
::Redoing ping to {{ping|Scyrme}} for {{ping|PrimeHunter}}. [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87|talk]]) 05:54, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
::Or by changing the color with [[WP:TemplateStyles]]. [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 06:12, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
:::OK, that's possible but too much work. If you want to use a template then just use {{tl|Colored link}} which uses the piped link method. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 13:07, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
::::Thanks for the answers, though it turned out my mistake was using {{tl|colored link}} around a link including the brackets rather than replacing the brackets with the template. Seems to work now. – [[User:Scyrme|Scyrme]] ([[User talk:Scyrme|talk]]) 17:07, 15 March 2026 (UTC)