Template:Overhead/doc

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

This template can be used to display chat and dialogue text the way it would appear above players and NPCs. The internal Near-Reality functions that generate this type of text are "say" and "npcsay". For game messages, use Template:Mes.

Usage

Note: 'color' may be spelled without the 'u' as this is how it appears in CSS styling.

{{overhead|text|color=optional colour}}

Additional parameters

{{overhead|text|color=optional colour|bg=background colour|shadow=no|size=font size}}

Example

{{overhead|The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.}}

Produces: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

{{overhead|The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.|color=red}}

Produces: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

To change the font size, the parameter size=<value> can be used:

{{overhead|The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.|color=red|size=15}}

Produces: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

To remove the shadow, the parameter shadow=no can be used:

{{overhead|The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.|color=red|shadow=no}}

Produces: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

To change background colour, use bg=colour. This is best combined with no shadow:

{{overhead|The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.|bg=#404040|shadow=no}}

Produces: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

See also

• Template:Mes for game messages.
• Template:Tbox for chatbox text on transcript pages.