Description

Template:Outdent is for outdenting a reply on a talk page when indention gets too deep. Indenting on talk pages is done using a colon character (:) to produce tabs. {{Outdent}} produces a connector bar and initial text to indicate an outdent, based on the number of colons used in the previous indent.

Usage

To outdent posts, insert the number of colons that were used for indenting in the previous post, or use an integer value for that number.

::::This is the previous post, indented 4 levels
{{Outdent|::::}}start of a new post

::::::This is the previous post, indented 6 levels
{{Outdent|6}}start of a new post

You can also have the template automatically add a linked tag to outdenting, by adding any second parameter (its specific value is discarded):

::::::This is the previous post, indented 6 levels
{{Outdent|6|link}}start of a new post

To not outdent all the way to the left margin, the outdent template itself can be indented using one or more colons:

::::::This is the previous post, indented 6 levels
::{{Outdent|4}}start of a new post

Do not substitute this template (i.e., do not use subst: with this template).

span.outdent-template { display: none; }

Redirects

{{od}} redirects to {{outdent}}

See also

• Help:Editing#Indenting
• {{Outdent2}}
• {{reset indent}} (shortcut → {{ri}})
• {{Undent}}