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 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 [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixindex&from=Country+data&namespace=10 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, "aliases": [ "variant" ]		},		"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 }	},	"format": "inline" } 

See: Extended image syntax.