| Template | Example output | Use |
|---|
| {{
strong}} | Important! | To indicate
<strong> importance, seriousness, or urgency instead of just simple typographical boldfacing |
| {{
strongbad}} | "Never use ..." | Same as {{strong}} but in red |
| {{
stronggood}} | "Only use ..." | Same as {{strong}} but in green |
| {{
em}} | "An emphatic phrase" | To indicate
<em> stress emphasis (not just purely typographical italicization like for book titles or foreign terms) |
| {{
var}} | strPrefix | To indicate text is a variable name. Use for any variable names except those including "I" (uppercase i) and/or "l" (lowercase L); for these, {{var serif}} should be used to ensure a noticeable distinction |
| {{
var serif}} | strIllustratePrefix | (see {{var}} above) |
| {{
tld}} | {{DEFAULTSORT:Y, X}} | To display wikicode variables and
magic words as they would appear in code |
| {{
para}} | |year=2008 | To display template parameters with or without values |
| {{
param}} | {{{title|alt}}} | To display parameters as used in code (i.e. with triple braces), especially to indicate relationships between them. May be combined with {{para}} above |
| {{
tjp}} | |selfref=yes | To display template parameters with colors (as they would appear in the {{
tj}} and {{
tji}} templates) |
| {{
param value}} | ··2·blanks·fore·and·aft·· | To display parameter values lightly bordered; replaces <code>...</code>, especially when value contains embedded or leading/trailing blanks; visualized here with
middot (·) but can use ␠, ▯, or any character. |
| {{
tlx}} etc. | {{
Template|1|2|...|10}} | To display a template call (with or without parameters and values) as code |
| {{
tji}} | {{
hatnote|Hello|selfref=yes|category=no}} | To showcase with colors in horizontal format the syntax of any template, while providing an easy way to display placeholder texts using colons as separators |
| {{
tag}} | "The <img>...</img> tags ..." | To render
HTML elements ("tags") in prose |
| {{
code}}/{{
codett}} | "Ensure the alt= parameter ..." | To indicate text is source code. To nest other templates within {{code}}, use <code>...</code>. {{
codett}} differs only in styling: someMethod becomes someMethod |
| {{
PreCode}} | "
FORTH has keyword ?BRANCH." | Like {{
code}}, but prevents line breaks inside the code. Only for very short code parts. |
| {{
subst:codenowiki}} | {{small|small text example}} | To wrap example code in <code><nowiki>...</nowiki></code> |
| {{
subst:kbdnowiki}} | {{large|large text example}} | To wrap example code in <kbd><nowiki>...</nowiki></kbd> |
| {{
syntaxhighlight}} | [this is a block template] | ( or {{
sxhl}} ) Wrapper for <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>, but will wrap overflowing text |
| {{
deprecated code}} | "Do not use <blink>." | ( or {{
dc}} ) To indicate
deprecated source code in template documentation, articles on HTML specs, etc. The {{
dc2}} variant uses strike-through (<blink>) while {{
dcr}} uses red (<blink>). |
| {{
pre}} | [this is a block template] | For larger blocks of source code and other pre-formatted text |
| {{
tj}} | [this is a block template] | To showcase with colors and multiple lines (vertical format) the syntax of any template, while providing an easy way to display placeholder texts using colons as separators |
| {{
quote}} | [this is a block template] | For block quotations (only – never for non-quotations) |
| {{
block indent}} | [this is a block template] | For indented blocks of material; visually identical to {{
quote}} but without quote markup |
| {{
kbd}} | user input | To indicate user input |
| {{
key press}} | Ctrl+x | To indicate specific-keystroke input, including combinations |
| {{
key top}} | Left shift | Similar; includes more symbols, but does not directly support combinations |
| {{
button}} | Don't save | To indicate a button in a user interface |
| {{
samp}} | example output | To indicate sample or example output |
