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This template is used on approximately 639,000 pages, or roughly 1% of all pages.
To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.
This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see Wikipedia:COinS.
As of June 10, 2016, a rule has been added to MediaWiki:Common.css, so now consistently renders at size that is 85% of the surrounding text. This template remains as a convenience wrapper.

{{Small}} is a replacement for <small>....

Usage

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.

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 = character appears in the content, the parameter must be explicitly specified as |1=.

Usage with multiple lines

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

Thus Good practice:

input shows
What a wonderful world What a wonderful world
{{small|What a wonderful world}} What a wonderful world
{{small|1=3 + 2 = 5}} 3 + 2 = 5
{{small|1=103}}
{{small|1=+ 2}}
----
{{small|1=105}}
 103

+ 2

----

105

Don't do this:

{{small|
*One
*Two
*Three}}

Do this instead:

{{smalldiv|
*One
*Two
*Three}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Small in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Small

A template shortcut for the "small" HTML tag that makes the font smaller

Template parameters[Edit template data]

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Text1

The text that you'd like to be made smaller

Stringrequired

Tracking categories

See also

Font size templates
Code for inline content Code for block content Size Result
{{small|text}} {{smalldiv|text}} 85% text
{{resize|text}} {{resizediv|text}} 90% text
none none 100% text
{{large|text}} {{largediv|text}} 120% text
{{huge|text}} 180% text
{{resize|x%|text}} {{resizediv|x%|text}} custom varies
{{font|size=x%}} custom varies
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