Template:Fraction/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Fraction. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is used on many pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This template should not be substituted.

This template should not be used in science or mathematical articles, use {{sfrac}} instead.

This template uses TemplateStyles: Template:Fraction/styles.css[e]

This template builds an alternative form of common fractions. The template takes one, two, or three parameters: the optional integer (may be signed), the optional numerator and the required denominator; in this order.

Please do not subst:itute it. This template should also not be used in certain situations; see MOS:FRAC and MOS:MATH § Fractions. For science or mathematical articles, use {{sfrac}} instead. To allow numerical sorting of a column containing fractions, use data-sort-value="X.YYY" where X.YYY is a rounded decimal equivalent. See Help:Sorting for more information and options. Inside citation templates, use the cleaner {{citefrac}}.

{{fraction|A|B|C}}

A+B⁄C (integer, numerator and denominator)

{{fraction|B|C}}

B⁄C (numerator and denominator)

{{fraction|C}}

1⁄C (denominator only)

{{fraction}}

⁄ (fraction slash only)

Numbers

1⁄2, 1⁄3, 2⁄3, 1⁄4, 3⁄4, 1⁄5, 2⁄5, 3⁄5, 4⁄5, 1⁄6, 5⁄6, 1⁄7, 2⁄7, 3⁄7, 4⁄7, 5⁄7, 6⁄7, 1⁄8, 3⁄8, 5⁄8, 7⁄8, 1⁄16, 3⁄16, 5⁄16, 7⁄16, 9⁄16, 11⁄16, 13⁄16, 15⁄16

Units

m⁄s, km⁄h, kg·m⁄s², 1⁄s, Mbit⁄s

• {{fraction}} or ⁄ may be used to print out the fraction slash glyph " ⁄ ".
• For mixed fractions, in some contexts (like link targets) a "+" is generated between the whole number part and fraction part. If this is not desirable, put the whole number part outside the template, and put a non-breaking space between when the spacing is desirable. For example: "33 {{frac|1|3}}".

• Wikipedia:Rendering math
• {{1/2}} (​¹⁄₂), {{1/3}}, {{2/3}}, {{1/4}}, {{3/4}} – shorthands that use this template
• {{sfrac}} (1/2) – displays common fractions using a vinculum (horizontal line), for scientific and mathematical text
• {{su}} (^superscript
  _subscript text) – to align both b=subscript & p=superscript
• {{sub}} (_subscript text) – to show a subscript
• {{sup}} (^superscript text) – to show a superscript
• Help:Displaying a formula § Fractions, matrices, multilines
• Help:Convert § Fractions
• Number Forms, a Unicode block consisting primarily of vulgar fractions
• OpenType fonts feature frac, CSS font-variant-numeric:diagonal-fractions
• U+2215 ∕ DIVISION SLASH (HTML ∕)