| 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, {{varserif}} should be used to ensure a noticeable distinction |
{{varserif}} | 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 |
{{tlx}} etc. | {{Template|1|2|...|10}} | To display a template call (with or without parameters and values) as code |
{{tag}} | "The TAG tags ..." | To render HTML elements ("tags") in prose |
{{code}} | "Ensure the alt= parameter ..." | To indicate text is source code. To nest other templates within {{code}}, use TAG |
{{subst:codenowiki}} | <code><nowiki> code ...
... </nowiki></code> | To wrap example code in TAG and nested TAG tags |
{{syntaxhighlight}} | [this is a block template] | ( or {{sxhl}} ) Wrapper for TAG, but will wrap overflowing text |
{{deprecated code}} | "Do not use TAG." | ( or {{dc}} ) To indicate deprecated source code in template documentation, articles on HTML specs, etc. The {{dc2}} variant uses strike-through (TAG) while {{dcr}} uses red (TAG). |
{{pre}} | [this is a block template] | For larger blocks of source code and other pre-formatted text |
{{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 |
{{PlayStation key press}} | □ | To indicate PlayStation-style gamepad key presses |
{{button}} | Don't save | To indicate a button in a user interface |
{{samp}} | example output | To indicate sample or example output |
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