Template:Medium/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Medium.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

Documentation

This template uses a <span> element for formatting.
Block-based templates and paragraph breaks cannot be nested inside it.

See H:DIVSPAN for details.

This template simplifies formatting text that is medium. 'medium' is actually larger than the ambient size in wiki-world.

Example

{{medium|medium}}

Absolute sizing

This template invokes a CSS 'absolute' size;

CSS absolute-size values	xx-small	x-small	small	medium	large	x-large	xx-large
HTML font sizes	1		2	3	4	5	6	7

{{smaller|Smaller {{medium|medium}} smaller.}}

gives: Smaller medium smaller.

{{x-larger|Large {{medium|medium}} large.}}

gives: Large medium large.

Reference

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#propdef-font-size