Template:Flag/doc

This template is used to display a small flag icon next to a wikilinked country name. It is related to the flagicon, flagcountry and flagu templates, but offers more options in terms of the text string displayed.

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template for the main documentation/discussion page for the flag templates system.

Usage
 country identifier&#124;optional variant&#124;name=alternative text string&#124;size=maximum width and/or height of the flag image 


 * country identifier is the common name of the country (e.g. "United States"), a common alias (e.g. "US"), or a standard country code such as those listed at ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
 * variant is an optional second parameter that can be used to display a flag variation, such as a historical flag. The list of variants for each country is documented on the appropriate template page, such as Template:Country data Germany
 * alternative text string, this optional value, specified by the name parameter, is used to display alternative text
 * size, this optional value is specified by the size parameter, and is used to specify the maximum width and/or height of the flag image. This parameter is specified using standard image syntax.

See the prefix index for the templates latently called by this one.

TemplateData
 {       "description": "This template displays a small flag icon next to a wikilinked country name", "params": { "1": {                       "label": "Country identifier", "description": "Common name of the country (e.g. 'United States'), a common alias (e.g. 'US'), or a standard country code", "type": "string", "required": true },               "2": {                        "label": "Variant", "description": "Identifies a flag variant to be used instead of the standard flag, e.g. 1815", "type": "string", "required": false },               "name": { "label": "Alternative text", "description": "Display alternative text instead of the standard country name", "type": "string", "required": false },               "size": { "label": "Maximum dimension", "description": "The maximum width or height, specified via standard 'extended image syntax' (e.g. x30px)", "type": "string", "required": false }       } } 

See: Music Reviews Wiki:Extended image syntax.