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{{Notice|As of [[Special:Diff/724648585|June 10, 2016]], a rule has been added to MediaWiki:Common.css, so now {{tag|small|o}} consistently renders at size that is 85% of the surrounding text. This template remains as a convenience wrapper.}}
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== Usage ==
This template is a replacement for {{tag|small}}.

Remember "Avoid using smaller font sizes in elements that already use a smaller font size, such as infoboxes, navboxes and references sections", per [[MOS:ACCESS#Font size]] and [[MOS:SMALLFONT]]. Using this template within an infobox would produce a font size 75% of the page default, well below the 85% minimum specified in the linked guidelines. <!-- Per [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 159#Infobox font size]], common text within an infobox is 88% of page default. Therefore use of this template in an infobox yields 74.8% of page default (0.88 * 0.85). -->

The only parameter is the content and may contain templates, images, etc. if a block needs to be wrapped in this template and contains such elements.  Note that if the <code>=</code> character appears in the content, the parameter must be explicitly specified as {{para|1}}.

Do not use this template to wrap multiple lines; doing so will cause [[Special:LintErrors|Linter]] errors.  If you need to wrap multiple list items or multiple paragraphs, use {{tl|smalldiv}} around the entire block, or wrap each list item or paragraph separately.

Thus {{done|Good practice}}:
{{anchor|small-dos}}
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!input
!shows
|-
| <code><nowiki>What a wonderful world</nowiki></code>
| What a wonderful world
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{small|What a wonderful world}}</nowiki></code>
| {{small|What a wonderful world}}
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{small|1=3 + 2 = 5}}</nowiki></code>
| {{small|1=3 + 2 = 5}}
|-
|<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">{{small|1=103}}
{{small|1=+ 2}}
——
{{small|1=105}}</syntaxhighlight>
|{{small|1=103}}

{{small|1=+ 2}}

——

{{small|1=105}}
|}

{{not done|Don't do this}}:
{{anchor|small-don'ts}}
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">{{small|
*One
*Two
*Three}}</syntaxhighlight>

{{done|Do this instead}}:
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">{{smalldiv|
*One
*Two
*Three}}</syntaxhighlight>

== Template data ==
{{TemplateDataHeader}}
<templatedata>
{
        "description": "A template shortcut for the \"small\" HTML tag that makes the font smaller ",
        "params": {
                "1": {
                        "label": "Text",
                        "description": "The text that you'd like to be made smaller",
                        "type": "string",
                        "required": true
                }
        }
}
</templatedata>

== Tracking category ==
* {{clc|Pages using small with an empty input parameter}}

== See also ==
{{font size templates}}

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