Template:IPA/doc

Template:IPA is most useful when there are multiple instances of the IPA on a page. It contains



I.e., it simply specifies CSS class IPA.

This allows fixing broken display of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) characters in MS Internet Explorer 6 for Windows, and choice of style in any browser.

For showing "pronounced [ ]" use pron.

Example
Placing a phonetic rendering of the word characters in Template:IPA:

The result will be a span with a class attribute, like this:

[ˈkærəktɚz]

Which appears in your browser as:



Without template:IPA:


 * [ˈkærəktɚz]

[The last two should only look different if you are using Internet Explorer 6 or lower on Windows, or if you have a custom style defined for IPA text.]

Please place all IPA text into Template:IPA, even if it doesn't have any special IPA characters, like this:. This will allow users to format all examples of IPA text consistently, with their choice of fonts, colours, etc.