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 {{tlx }} etc. {{Template |1 |2 |...|10 }} To display a template call (with or without parameters and values) as code {{tag }} "The < img > ...</ img >
tags ..." To render HTML elements ("tags") in prose {{code }}/{{codett }} "Ensure the parameter ..." To indicate text is source code. To nest other templates within {{code}}, use < code > ...</ code >
. {{codett }} differs only in styling: becomes {{subst:codenowiki }} {{small|small text}}
To wrap example code in <code><nowiki>...</nowiki></code>
{{subst:kbdnowiki }} {{big|big text}} 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 {{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 }} <span class="nowrap" title="<translate nowrap> This is not a clickable button; it illustrates the button one should find.</translate>" style="padding:.2em .6em; border:1px solid; border-color:#AAA #555 #555 #AAA; border-radius: 3px; background-color: #F2F2F2; background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #FCFCFC, #E0E0E0); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #FCFCFC, #E0E0E0); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #FCFCFC, #E0E0E0); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #FCFCFC, #E0E0E0); ">Don't save To indicate a button in a user interface {{samp }} example output To indicate sample or example output