Note to template editors: Edits to the taxonomic terms (taxa) in this template depend for their effect in manual taxoboxes on the colour-determining taxon being at a rank allowed to change the taxobox colour by {{Taxobox}}, so this may need altering. Colours must be defined using the rgb(..,..,..) format to enable {{Sets taxobox colour}} to work correctly.

This template is one of a number of configuration templates used in the taxobox system, in this case in both manual and automated taxoboxes.

It generates the appropriate colour for a taxobox.

It should only be used by other taxobox templates.

Manual taxoboxes call this template from {{Taxobox}}, which looks at the values of ranks given in the taxobox from phylum upwards and uses the taxobox colour for the first colour-setting taxon found (or the error colour if none is found). {{Sets taxobox colour}} is used to decide whether a taxon is colour-setting, which it does by using this template.

Automated taxoboxes use a function in Module:Autotaxobox, which finds a colour-setting taxon by searching up the taxonomic hierarchy coded in taxonomy templates (i.e. templates with names of the form "Taxonomy/taxon-name").

Both manual and automatic taxoboxes usually generate their colours automatically. If this fails, or if for some reason the automatically generated colour should be over-ridden, |color_as= can be used to set the colour based on a supplied taxon. Thus:

| color_as = [[जन्तु]] जगत

within a taxobox forces its colour to be the one appropriate for animal taxoboxes. The taxon given as the value of |color_as= must be in the switch statement in this template. Thus |color_as=Felis fails and assigns the error colour.

Animalia rgb(235,235,210)
Archaeplastida rgb(180,250,180) (palegreen2)
Fungi rgb(145,250,250) (lightblue)
Chromalveolata rgb(200,250,80)
Rhizaria transparent; text-align:center; border: 2px solid red; error:colour
Excavata rgb(245,215,255) (khaki)
Amoebozoa rgb(245,215,255)
Bacteria rgb(220,235,245) (lightgray)
Archaea rgb(195,245,250)
Viruses rgb(250,250,190) (violet)
incertae sedis rgb(250,240,230) (linen)
Colours not produced by this template:
Ichnotaxa rgb(221, 165, 127)
Ootaxa rgb(255,192,203) (pink)

Other configuration templates include:

  • {{Anglicise rank}} – converts the Latin form that is used in taxonomy templates to the English equivalent
  • {{Principal rank}} – defines the Linnaean principal ranks that are shown by default in automated taxoboxes
  • {{Is italic taxon}} – defines which ranks cause taxon names to be italicized in automated taxoboxes