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This is a documentation subpage for Template:URL2
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is used on many pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

Uses Lua:

Module:URL

This is a fork of Template:URL for use in infoboxes.

It behaves similarly to {{URL}} with the following exceptions:

By default it does not display anything if the parameters are blank or omitted. Template:URL displays {{URL|example.com|optional display text}} by default.
It implements a parameter |msg= that turns on or off the message {{URL|example.com|optional display text}}. Setting msg to false or anything beginning with n or N will suppress the message. Anything else enables the message.
It strips html tags and wiki-link markup from the supplied url parameter.
It truncates the url parameter at the first space it finds.
It can take its own output as input, allowing website parameters to be wrapped in Template:Tnull in the design of an infobox, without causing problems if editors add |website={{URL|some.url.com}} in an article.

Usage

{{URL2|url}}
{{URL2|1=url}}

Examples

Different from Template:URL

If there is no input, the default behavior of URL2 is to display nothing (use |msg= to display the instructional message): Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo

URL2 handles formatting commonly found in the |website= parameter of an infobox: Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo

Same as Template:URL

The template wraps the output in <span class="url">...</span> (see Template:Section link) and adds <wbr/> before displayed periods: Template:Nowiki template demo

The use of http://, https://, a protocol-relative URL, or a different protocol is preserved in the URL but is not shown in the link text: Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo Template:Nowiki template demo

If the path is only a slash (/) it is not displayed in the link text: Template:Nowiki template demo

The template also adds <wbr/> before any displayed slashes (/) in the path: Template:Nowiki template demo

For a URL containing an equal sign (=), use |1=: Template:Nowiki template demo

Microformat

The template wraps the displayed URL with class="url" so that it is included in any parent microformat which takes a URL parameter - see Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats.