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{{Documentation subpage}}
<!-- Add categories where indicated at the bottom of this page and interwikis at Wikidata -->
<!-- Add categories where indicated at the bottom of this page and interwikis at Wikidata -->
{{Lua|Module:Error}}
{{Lua|Module:Error}}

Revision as of 02:53, 14 February 2025

This meta template returns a state of error (recognized as such by a wiki Template:Ll), and optionally an error-message text in red (visible for the user). It is used by other templates to signal an error, for example invalid input, which can then either be displayed to the editor or caught and handled by other templates.

Usage

  • {{error|An exemplary error}}An exemplary error
  • {{error|message=An exemplary error}}An exemplary error
  • Compare, used in a Parser Function: {{#expr:Foo}}Expression error: Unrecognized word "foo".
  • {{#iferror:{{error|Foo}} | yes | no }} → yes

Tag option

The tag to contain the error message can be given through the tag parameter, but it will only accept span, div, p, and strong, since those are the only tags recognized by the #iferror parser function. It defaults to strong, the tag generated e.g. by #expre. To prevent strong message, use one of the other tags, e.g. tag=span.

  • ABC {{error|An exemplary error demo no tag (default)}} XYZ → ABC An exemplary error demo no tag (default) XYZ
  • ABC {{error|An exemplary error demo span|tag=span}} XYZ → ABC An exemplary error demo span XYZ
  • ABC {{error|An exemplary error demo div|tag=div}} XYZ → ABC
    An exemplary error demo div
    XYZ
  • ABC {{error|An exemplary error demo p|tag=p}} XYZ → ABC

    An exemplary error demo p

    XYZ
  • ABC {{error|An exemplary error demo strong|tag=strong}} XYZ → ABC An exemplary error demo strong XYZ

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Error in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Error

The template returns a state of error (recognized as such by a wiki parser function), and an error-message text in red (visible for the user).

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Tagtag

The tag to contain the error message; will only accept “span”, “div”, “p”, and “strong”, since those are the only tags recognized by the “#iferror:” parser function.

It defaults to “strong”, the tag generated by the “#expr:”, “#invoke:”, etc. parser functions.

Suggested values
span strong div p
Default
strong
Stringoptional
Message1 message

Error message text in red

Contentrequired

See also