Template:Template link null/doc

This template, often abbreviated as {{tnull}}, is used to provide stylized formatting to template displays without actually using the template itself. The code generated will be displayed inline. For a multi-line output, see {{Tj}}.

Parameters

With the exception of alttext, the named parameters are toggles that are either omitted (default in most cases) or activated (by being assigned a value such as "on", "yes", "true", "include", etc.). They may be included in any order (see Examples below). Certain templates have the parameter "on" by default; see the main table for all alternate options.

Parameter	Action	Use with {{example}}	Default active
	Default (without accessory parameters)	{{example}}
brace	Include braces as part of the template link	{{example}}	{{tlw}}/{{tn}}
braceinside	Include innermost braces as part of the template link	{{example}}
bold	Renders the template link/name in bold	{{example}}	{{tlb}}, {{tlxb}}
code	Display output using HTML <code>...</code> tags (monospaced font)	{{example}}	{{tlc}}, {{Template link expanded}}, etc.
italic	Display any parameters accompanying the template link/name in italics	{{example|param}}	{{tlxi}}
kbd	Display output using HTML <kbd>...</kbd> tags (monospaced font)	{{example}}
nolink	Don't render the template name as a link	{{example}}	{{tlf}}, {{tnull}}
nowrap	Prevent the insertion of line breaks (word wrap) in the output	{{example}}
nowrapname	Prevent word wrapping in the output of template name/link (parameters will wrap if needed)	{{example}}
plaincode	Uses <code style="border:none; background:transparent;">...</code>	{{example}}	{{tltss}}
subst	Include a subst: prefix before the template link/name	{{subst:example}}	{{tls}}, {{tlxs}}, etc
alttext=[text]	Replace [text] with the actual label to be displayed for the template link	{{Other}}	{{tla}}
_show_result	Will also display the result of the template	{{Min|7|-5}} → -5
_expand	Will add a link to the expanded template page	{{Min|7|-5}} [1]

Unnamed (Positional)

This template can take any number of unnamed parameters as parameters accompanying the template link (or name); see Examples below.

Examples

Note

On the source sister projects, en.wikipedia and Meta, X0, X1, X2, ..., X9 are sandbox templates for experimentation on involved templates that need be in template space. An auto-cleansing software facility exists that might be used to duplicate the facility on other Sister projects.

Code	Output	Remarks
{{tlg|Banner}}	{{Banner}}	Template:Banner does not exist. (Non-existent template is redlinked.)
{{tlg|Abc}}	{{Abc}}	Template:Abc exists.
{{tlg|abC}}	{{abC}}	Template names are case-sensitive
{{tlg|abc}}	{{abc}}	(but the first letter is case-insensitive).
{{tlg|x0}}	{{x0}}	no parameters
{{tlg|x1|one}}	{{x1|one}}	one parameter
{{tlg|x2|one|two}}	{{x2|one|two}}	two parameters
{{tlg|x3|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10}}	{{x3|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10}}	ten parameters
{{convert|14|m|ftin|abbr=out|sp=us}}	Unlimited parameters, as one <nowiki>...</nowiki> string.	{{tlg|x2||two||}}
{{x2|two}}	Empty parameters are discarded.	{{tlg|x0|code=on}}
{{x0}}	<code> style	{{tlg|x0|plaincode=on}}
{{x0}}	plaincode style	{{tlg|x0|kbd=on}}
{{x0}}	<kbd> style	{{tlg|x0|bold=on}}
{{x0}}	bold link/name	{{tlg|x1|one|italic=on}}
{{x1|one}}	parameter(s) in italics	{{tlg|x0|nolink=on}}
{{x0}}		{{tlg|x0|subst=on}}
{{subst:x0}}		{{tlg|x0|brace=on}}
{{x0}}	all braces in link	{{tlg|x0|braceinside=on}}
{{x0}}	inside braces in link	{{tlg|x0|alttext=x0 link}}
{{x0 link}}		{{tlg|x0|bold=on|code=on|brace=on}}
{{x0}}	Combine multiple parameter settings.	{{abc| one }}
Using {{spaces}} before and after a parameter.	{{tlg|x2|bold=on|code=on|one|two}}	{{x2|one|two}}
Can combine named and anonymous parameters ...	{{tlg|x2|one|two|bold=on|code=on}}	{{x2|one|two}}
... in any order ...	{{tlg|x2|one|code=on|two|bold=on|three}}	{{x2|one|two|three}}
... even intermixed ...	{{tlg|x2|one|code=on|two|bold=on|three|italic=on}}	{{x2|one|two|three}}
... with many configurations.	{{x1}}	= won't work
{{x1|x=u}}	&#61; is okay	{{x1|x=u}}
{{=}} is okay (see Template:=)	{{x1|x=u}}	Sticky nowiki is okay.
{{tlg|x2|3=two|2=one}}	{{x2|one|two}}	Right-to-left is okay
{{tlg}}	tlg	With no arguments, it emits the current page name without braces.
{{tlg|x2|3=one|4=two}}	{{x2}}	Null parameter stops parsing.

Wrapping of long names (default)

Code	Output
{{tlg|long template name that would wrap to new line|this is a long value for the 1st parameter that would wrap}}	{{long template name that would wrap to new line|this is a long value for the 1st parameter that would wrap}}

Wrapping of long names (nowrap=on)

Code	Output
{{tlg|nowrap=on|long template name that would wrap to new line|long value for the 1st parameter that would wrap}}	{{long template name that would wrap to new line|long value for the 1st parameter that would wrap}}

Wrapping of long names (nowrapname=on)

Code	Output
{{tlg|nowrapname=on|long template name that would wrap to new line|long value for the 1st parameter that would wrap}}	{{long template name that would wrap to new line|long value for the 1st parameter that would wrap}}

See also

General-purpose formatting

Comparison of template-linking templates according to the styles of generated text and link produced

Text style ↓	{{tlg}} options to achieve text style	Link style
		Linked	Unlinked	Linked with subst	Unlinked with subst	Linked including braces	Linked with alternative text
{{tlg}} options to achieve link style	—	DEFAULT	Usage Wraps a short span of text in <syntaxhighlight> tags (see mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight). This template should be used for short samples; longer content should use <pre>...</pre> or <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>. See Help:Wiki markup for an explanation of what the various tags do. If the content includes an equals sign (=), you must specify the parameter explicitly: {{code|1=date=30 Feb 2010}}. The template uses the <syntaxhighlight> tag with the attribute inline=1. This works like the combination of the <code> and <nowiki> tags, applied to the expanded wikitext. For example, {{code|some '''wiki''' text}} will not render the word "wiki" in bold, and will render the tripled-single-quotes: However, {{code|a {{template}} call}} will still invoke the template: Use <nowiki>...</nowiki> around the template name to avoid this problem: When used inline with regular text, {{code}} generally looks best and is easiest to read when it is explicitly spaced apart from the regular text: is well spaced: foo    quux. versus: which is going to be visually confusing for many: foo quux. because "foo" and "" will seem more closely associated than "" and ""; the width of the space character in a monospaced font is almost always larger than in a proportional font. Use parameter {{{2}}} (unnamed, as |2=, or more explicitly as |lang=) to specify a language for mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight. This option defaults to plain-text, i.e. no highlighting. There is no highlighting option for wikitext as a markup language, though and are valid values, as are , , , , and many others. Attempting to use an invalid one causes a list of valid ones to be displayed in place of the template output, when the page is previewed or saved. This template does not need to be substituted. Examples Markup Renders as Included templates Embedded templates do not function as expected inside {{code}}; for longer, free-form blocks of code, which can contain templates such as {{var}} and {{samp}}, use <code>...</code> as a wrapper instead of this template. Templates used inside {{code}} expose the rendered HTML— this can be useful. For example: Markup Renders as The above example shows the HTML rendered by the citation template, including the hidden metadata. TemplateData This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData. TemplateData for Template link null See also {{codett}}, wrapper for this template that removes background and border styling {{mono}}, monospaced font only {{param value}}, monospaced; friendly handling for blank space {{Syntaxhighlight}} {{kbd}}, for keyboard input Help:Wiki markup	Usage Wraps a short span of text in <syntaxhighlight> tags (see mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight). This template should be used for short samples; longer content should use <pre>...</pre> or <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>. See Help:Wiki markup for an explanation of what the various tags do. If the content includes an equals sign (=), you must specify the parameter explicitly: {{code|1=date=30 Feb 2010}}. The template uses the <syntaxhighlight> tag with the attribute inline=1. This works like the combination of the <code> and <nowiki> tags, applied to the expanded wikitext. For example, {{code|some '''wiki''' text}} will not render the word "wiki" in bold, and will render the tripled-single-quotes: However, {{code|a {{template}} call}} will still invoke the template: Use <nowiki>...</nowiki> around the template name to avoid this problem: When used inline with regular text, {{code}} generally looks best and is easiest to read when it is explicitly spaced apart from the regular text: is well spaced: foo    quux. versus: which is going to be visually confusing for many: foo quux. because "foo" and "" will seem more closely associated than "" and ""; the width of the space character in a monospaced font is almost always larger than in a proportional font. Use parameter {{{2}}} (unnamed, as |2=, or more explicitly as |lang=) to specify a language for mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight. This option defaults to plain-text, i.e. no highlighting. There is no highlighting option for wikitext as a markup language, though and are valid values, as are , , , , and many others. Attempting to use an invalid one causes a list of valid ones to be displayed in place of the template output, when the page is previewed or saved. This template does not need to be substituted. Examples Markup Renders as Included templates Embedded templates do not function as expected inside {{code}}; for longer, free-form blocks of code, which can contain templates such as {{var}} and {{samp}}, use <code>...</code> as a wrapper instead of this template. Templates used inside {{code}} expose the rendered HTML— this can be useful. For example: Markup Renders as The above example shows the HTML rendered by the citation template, including the hidden metadata. TemplateData This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData. TemplateData for Template link null See also {{codett}}, wrapper for this template that removes background and border styling {{mono}}, monospaced font only {{param value}}, monospaced; friendly handling for blank space {{Syntaxhighlight}} {{kbd}}, for keyboard input Help:Wiki markup	nolink=yes|subst=yes	Usage Wraps a short span of text in <syntaxhighlight> tags (see mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight). This template should be used for short samples; longer content should use <pre>...</pre> or <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>. See Help:Wiki markup for an explanation of what the various tags do. If the content includes an equals sign (=), you must specify the parameter explicitly: {{code|1=date=30 Feb 2010}}. The template uses the <syntaxhighlight> tag with the attribute inline=1. This works like the combination of the <code> and <nowiki> tags, applied to the expanded wikitext. For example, {{code|some '''wiki''' text}} will not render the word "wiki" in bold, and will render the tripled-single-quotes: However, {{code|a {{template}} call}} will still invoke the template: Use <nowiki>...</nowiki> around the template name to avoid this problem: When used inline with regular text, {{code}} generally looks best and is easiest to read when it is explicitly spaced apart from the regular text: is well spaced: foo    quux. versus: which is going to be visually confusing for many: foo quux. because "foo" and "" will seem more closely associated than "" and ""; the width of the space character in a monospaced font is almost always larger than in a proportional font. Use parameter {{{2}}} (unnamed, as |2=, or more explicitly as |lang=) to specify a language for mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight. This option defaults to plain-text, i.e. no highlighting. There is no highlighting option for wikitext as a markup language, though and are valid values, as are , , , , and many others. Attempting to use an invalid one causes a list of valid ones to be displayed in place of the template output, when the page is previewed or saved. This template does not need to be substituted. Examples Markup Renders as Included templates Embedded templates do not function as expected inside {{code}}; for longer, free-form blocks of code, which can contain templates such as {{var}} and {{samp}}, use <code>...</code> as a wrapper instead of this template. Templates used inside {{code}} expose the rendered HTML— this can be useful. For example: Markup Renders as The above example shows the HTML rendered by the citation template, including the hidden metadata. TemplateData This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData. TemplateData for Template link null See also {{codett}}, wrapper for this template that removes background and border styling {{mono}}, monospaced font only {{param value}}, monospaced; friendly handling for blank space {{Syntaxhighlight}} {{kbd}}, for keyboard input Help:Wiki markup	Usage Wraps a short span of text in <syntaxhighlight> tags (see mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight). This template should be used for short samples; longer content should use <pre>...</pre> or <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>. See Help:Wiki markup for an explanation of what the various tags do. If the content includes an equals sign (=), you must specify the parameter explicitly: {{code|1=date=30 Feb 2010}}. The template uses the <syntaxhighlight> tag with the attribute inline=1. This works like the combination of the <code> and <nowiki> tags, applied to the expanded wikitext. For example, {{code|some '''wiki''' text}} will not render the word "wiki" in bold, and will render the tripled-single-quotes: However, {{code|a {{template}} call}} will still invoke the template: Use <nowiki>...</nowiki> around the template name to avoid this problem: When used inline with regular text, {{code}} generally looks best and is easiest to read when it is explicitly spaced apart from the regular text: is well spaced: foo    quux. versus: which is going to be visually confusing for many: foo quux. because "foo" and "" will seem more closely associated than "" and ""; the width of the space character in a monospaced font is almost always larger than in a proportional font. Use parameter {{{2}}} (unnamed, as |2=, or more explicitly as |lang=) to specify a language for mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight. This option defaults to plain-text, i.e. no highlighting. There is no highlighting option for wikitext as a markup language, though and are valid values, as are , , , , and many others. Attempting to use an invalid one causes a list of valid ones to be displayed in place of the template output, when the page is previewed or saved. This template does not need to be substituted. Examples Markup Renders as Included templates Embedded templates do not function as expected inside {{code}}; for longer, free-form blocks of code, which can contain templates such as {{var}} and {{samp}}, use <code>...</code> as a wrapper instead of this template. Templates used inside {{code}} expose the rendered HTML— this can be useful. For example: Markup Renders as The above example shows the HTML rendered by the citation template, including the hidden metadata. TemplateData This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData. TemplateData for Template link null See also {{codett}}, wrapper for this template that removes background and border styling {{mono}}, monospaced font only {{param value}}, monospaced; friendly handling for blank space {{Syntaxhighlight}} {{kbd}}, for keyboard input Help:Wiki markup Usage Wraps a short span of text in <syntaxhighlight> tags (see mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight). This template should be used for short samples; longer content should use <pre>...</pre> or <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>. See Help:Wiki markup for an explanation of what the various tags do. If the content includes an equals sign (=), you must specify the parameter explicitly: {{code|1=date=30 Feb 2010}}. The template uses the <syntaxhighlight> tag with the attribute inline=1. This works like the combination of the <code> and <nowiki> tags, applied to the expanded wikitext. For example, {{code|some '''wiki''' text}} will not render the word "wiki" in bold, and will render the tripled-single-quotes: However, {{code|a {{template}} call}} will still invoke the template: Use <nowiki>...</nowiki> around the template name to avoid this problem: When used inline with regular text, {{code}} generally looks best and is easiest to read when it is explicitly spaced apart from the regular text: is well spaced: foo    quux. versus: which is going to be visually confusing for many: foo quux. because "foo" and "" will seem more closely associated than "" and ""; the width of the space character in a monospaced font is almost always larger than in a proportional font. Use parameter {{{2}}} (unnamed, as |2=, or more explicitly as |lang=) to specify a language for mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight. This option defaults to plain-text, i.e. no highlighting. There is no highlighting option for wikitext as a markup language, though and are valid values, as are , , , , and many others. Attempting to use an invalid one causes a list of valid ones to be displayed in place of the template output, when the page is previewed or saved. This template does not need to be substituted. Examples Markup Renders as Included templates Embedded templates do not function as expected inside {{code}}; for longer, free-form blocks of code, which can contain templates such as {{var}} and {{samp}}, use <code>...</code> as a wrapper instead of this template. Templates used inside {{code}} expose the rendered HTML— this can be useful. For example: Markup Renders as The above example shows the HTML rendered by the citation template, including the hidden metadata. TemplateData This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData. TemplateData for Template link null See also {{codett}}, wrapper for this template that removes background and border styling {{mono}}, monospaced font only {{param value}}, monospaced; friendly handling for blank space {{Syntaxhighlight}} {{kbd}}, for keyboard input Help:Wiki markup
normal	DEFAULT	{{tlg}} {{tl}} {{tlp|1|2|...}} {{Template:tlu}}	{{tlf}} <template link>	{{subst:tls}} {{subst:Template:tlsu}}	{{subst:tlsf}} <template link>	{{tn}}	{{tla}}
code	Usage Wraps a short span of text in <syntaxhighlight> tags (see mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight). This template should be used for short samples; longer content should use <pre>...</pre> or <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>. See Help:Wiki markup for an explanation of what the various tags do. If the content includes an equals sign (=), you must specify the parameter explicitly: {{code|1=date=30 Feb 2010}}. The template uses the <syntaxhighlight> tag with the attribute inline=1. This works like the combination of the <code> and <nowiki> tags, applied to the expanded wikitext. For example, {{code|some '''wiki''' text}} will not render the word "wiki" in bold, and will render the tripled-single-quotes: However, {{code|a {{template}} call}} will still invoke the template: Use <nowiki>...</nowiki> around the template name to avoid this problem: When used inline with regular text, {{code}} generally looks best and is easiest to read when it is explicitly spaced apart from the regular text: is well spaced: foo    quux. versus: which is going to be visually confusing for many: foo quux. because "foo" and "" will seem more closely associated than "" and ""; the width of the space character in a monospaced font is almost always larger than in a proportional font. Use parameter {{{2}}} (unnamed, as |2=, or more explicitly as |lang=) to specify a language for mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight. This option defaults to plain-text, i.e. no highlighting. There is no highlighting option for wikitext as a markup language, though and are valid values, as are , , , , and many others. Attempting to use an invalid one causes a list of valid ones to be displayed in place of the template output, when the page is previewed or saved. This template does not need to be substituted. Examples Markup Renders as Included templates Embedded templates do not function as expected inside {{code}}; for longer, free-form blocks of code, which can contain templates such as {{var}} and {{samp}}, use <code>...</code> as a wrapper instead of this template. Templates used inside {{code}} expose the rendered HTML— this can be useful. For example: Markup Renders as The above example shows the HTML rendered by the citation template, including the hidden metadata. TemplateData This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData. TemplateData for Template link null See also {{codett}}, wrapper for this template that removes background and border styling {{mono}}, monospaced font only {{param value}}, monospaced; friendly handling for blank space {{Syntaxhighlight}} {{kbd}}, for keyboard input Help:Wiki markup	{{tl2}} {{tlx}} {{Template:tlxu}}	{{tlc}} <template link> {{tnull}}<template link>	{{subst:tlxs}}	{{subst:tlsc}} <template link>	—
monospace	Usage Wraps a short span of text in <syntaxhighlight> tags (see mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight). This template should be used for short samples; longer content should use <pre>...</pre> or <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>. See Help:Wiki markup for an explanation of what the various tags do. If the content includes an equals sign (=), you must specify the parameter explicitly: {{code|1=date=30 Feb 2010}}. The template uses the <syntaxhighlight> tag with the attribute inline=1. This works like the combination of the <code> and <nowiki> tags, applied to the expanded wikitext. For example, {{code|some '''wiki''' text}} will not render the word "wiki" in bold, and will render the tripled-single-quotes: However, {{code|a {{template}} call}} will still invoke the template: Use <nowiki>...</nowiki> around the template name to avoid this problem: When used inline with regular text, {{code}} generally looks best and is easiest to read when it is explicitly spaced apart from the regular text: is well spaced: foo    quux. versus: which is going to be visually confusing for many: foo quux. because "foo" and "" will seem more closely associated than "" and ""; the width of the space character in a monospaced font is almost always larger than in a proportional font. Use parameter {{{2}}} (unnamed, as |2=, or more explicitly as |lang=) to specify a language for mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight. This option defaults to plain-text, i.e. no highlighting. There is no highlighting option for wikitext as a markup language, though and are valid values, as are , , , , and many others. Attempting to use an invalid one causes a list of valid ones to be displayed in place of the template output, when the page is previewed or saved. This template does not need to be substituted. Examples Markup Renders as Included templates Embedded templates do not function as expected inside {{code}}; for longer, free-form blocks of code, which can contain templates such as {{var}} and {{samp}}, use <code>...</code> as a wrapper instead of this template. Templates used inside {{code}} expose the rendered HTML— this can be useful. For example: Markup Renders as The above example shows the HTML rendered by the citation template, including the hidden metadata. TemplateData This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData. TemplateData for Template link null See also {{codett}}, wrapper for this template that removes background and border styling {{mono}}, monospaced font only {{param value}}, monospaced; friendly handling for blank space {{Syntaxhighlight}} {{kbd}}, for keyboard input Help:Wiki markup	—		{{subst:tltss}}	—
kbd	Usage Wraps a short span of text in <syntaxhighlight> tags (see mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight). This template should be used for short samples; longer content should use <pre>...</pre> or <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>. See Help:Wiki markup for an explanation of what the various tags do. If the content includes an equals sign (=), you must specify the parameter explicitly: {{code|1=date=30 Feb 2010}}. The template uses the <syntaxhighlight> tag with the attribute inline=1. This works like the combination of the <code> and <nowiki> tags, applied to the expanded wikitext. For example, {{code|some '''wiki''' text}} will not render the word "wiki" in bold, and will render the tripled-single-quotes: However, {{code|a {{template}} call}} will still invoke the template: Use <nowiki>...</nowiki> around the template name to avoid this problem: When used inline with regular text, {{code}} generally looks best and is easiest to read when it is explicitly spaced apart from the regular text: is well spaced: foo    quux. versus: which is going to be visually confusing for many: foo quux. because "foo" and "" will seem more closely associated than "" and ""; the width of the space character in a monospaced font is almost always larger than in a proportional font. Use parameter {{{2}}} (unnamed, as |2=, or more explicitly as |lang=) to specify a language for mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight. This option defaults to plain-text, i.e. no highlighting. There is no highlighting option for wikitext as a markup language, though and are valid values, as are , , , , and many others. Attempting to use an invalid one causes a list of valid ones to be displayed in place of the template output, when the page is previewed or saved. This template does not need to be substituted. Examples Markup Renders as Included templates Embedded templates do not function as expected inside {{code}}; for longer, free-form blocks of code, which can contain templates such as {{var}} and {{samp}}, use <code>...</code> as a wrapper instead of this template. Templates used inside {{code}} expose the rendered HTML— this can be useful. For example: Markup Renders as The above example shows the HTML rendered by the citation template, including the hidden metadata. TemplateData This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData. TemplateData for Template link null See also {{codett}}, wrapper for this template that removes background and border styling {{mono}}, monospaced font only {{param value}}, monospaced; friendly handling for blank space {{Syntaxhighlight}} {{kbd}}, for keyboard input Help:Wiki markup
bold	Usage Wraps a short span of text in <syntaxhighlight> tags (see mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight). This template should be used for short samples; longer content should use <pre>...</pre> or <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>. See Help:Wiki markup for an explanation of what the various tags do. If the content includes an equals sign (=), you must specify the parameter explicitly: {{code|1=date=30 Feb 2010}}. The template uses the <syntaxhighlight> tag with the attribute inline=1. This works like the combination of the <code> and <nowiki> tags, applied to the expanded wikitext. For example, {{code|some '''wiki''' text}} will not render the word "wiki" in bold, and will render the tripled-single-quotes: However, {{code|a {{template}} call}} will still invoke the template: Use <nowiki>...</nowiki> around the template name to avoid this problem: When used inline with regular text, {{code}} generally looks best and is easiest to read when it is explicitly spaced apart from the regular text: is well spaced: foo    quux. versus: which is going to be visually confusing for many: foo quux. because "foo" and "" will seem more closely associated than "" and ""; the width of the space character in a monospaced font is almost always larger than in a proportional font. Use parameter {{{2}}} (unnamed, as |2=, or more explicitly as |lang=) to specify a language for mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight. This option defaults to plain-text, i.e. no highlighting. There is no highlighting option for wikitext as a markup language, though and are valid values, as are , , , , and many others. Attempting to use an invalid one causes a list of valid ones to be displayed in place of the template output, when the page is previewed or saved. This template does not need to be substituted. Examples Markup Renders as Included templates Embedded templates do not function as expected inside {{code}}; for longer, free-form blocks of code, which can contain templates such as {{var}} and {{samp}}, use <code>...</code> as a wrapper instead of this template. Templates used inside {{code}} expose the rendered HTML— this can be useful. For example: Markup Renders as The above example shows the HTML rendered by the citation template, including the hidden metadata. TemplateData This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData. TemplateData for Template link null See also {{codett}}, wrapper for this template that removes background and border styling {{mono}}, monospaced font only {{param value}}, monospaced; friendly handling for blank space {{Syntaxhighlight}} {{kbd}}, for keyboard input Help:Wiki markup	{{tlb}}	—
bold+code	bold=yes|code=yes	{{tlxb}}
italic+code	italic=yes|code=yes	{{tlxi}}

Other formatting templates

Templates producing specialised formatting effects for given templates, modules or parameters

Code example	Effect	Notes
{{Tj|Hatnote|Some text|selfref: yes|category: no|lang: fr}}	{{Hatnote | Some text | selfref = yes | category = no | lang = fr }}	Supports colors, placeholder texts, named and unnamed parameters
<source lang="wikitext"> <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"> Some text </syntaxhighlight> </source>	<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"> Some text </syntaxhighlight>	Same as above
{{Tji|Hatnote|Some text|selfref: yes|category: no|lang: fr}}	{{Hatnote|Some text|selfref=yes|category=no|lang=fr}}	Supports colors, placeholder texts, named and unnamed parameters
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline>{{Hatnote|Some text|selfref=yes|category=no|lang=fr}}</syntaxhighlight>	<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline> Some text </syntaxhighlight>	Same as above
{{tl2|Hatnote|lang=fr}}	{{hatnote}}	Supports linking to sister projects (e.g., fr:Hatnote)
{{demo|<nowiki>{{Hatnote|lang=fr|Some text}}</nowiki>}}		Shows code and example
{{tln|Hatnote}}	Template:Hatnote	Produces a normal link to the template
{{elc|Template:Hatnote}} {{elc|Template:Hatnote|Hatnote}}	[[Template:Hatnote]] [[Template:Hatnote|Hatnote]]	Formats wikilink, with optional piped link text and blended suffix
{{ml|Example|hello}}	{{#invoke:Example|hello}}	Counterpart to {{tl}} for linking to Lua modules
{{mlx|Example|hello}}	{{#invoke:Example|hello}}	Counterpart to {{tlx}} for linking to Lua modules
{{ml-lua|Module:Example|hello}}	<syntaxhighlight lang="lua" inline="1">require('Module:Example')</syntaxhighlight>	Link to Lua modules and built-in libraries, showing Lua code.
{{para|title|<var>book title</var>}}	|title=book title	Formats template parameters for display, with or without values
{{sclx|LASTING}}	[[WP:LASTING]]	Takes a shortcut suffix in project namespace and displays it with brackets and the WP: alias in a <code>...</code> tag.
{{tag|ref}} {{xtag|templatedata}}	<ref>...</ref> <templatedata>	Formats [X]HTML tags; can add content, choose opening, closing, or self-closing
{{dtl|Ping project}}	{{d:Ping project}}	Wikidata counterpart to {{tl}}
{{pf|if}} {{pf|if|{{{1}}}|true|false}}	{{#if}} {{#if:{{{1}}}|true|false}}	Parser function equivalent to {{tl}}
{{magic word|uc:}}	{{uc:}}	Magic word links

With utility links

Templates producing utility links for a given template (Hatnote used here as example)

Code example	Effect
{{lt|Hatnote}}	Template:Hatnote (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
{{lts|Hatnote}}	Template:Hatnote(edit talk links history)
{{t links|Hatnote}}	{{Hatnote}} (edit talk history links # /subpages /doc /doc edit /sbox /sbox diff /test)
{{tfd links|Hatnote}}
{{tetl|Hatnote}}	{{Hatnote}} links talk edit
{{tsetl|Hatnote}}	{{subst:Hatnote}}  links talk edit
{{ti|Hatnote}}	Template:Hatnote (talk⧼dot-separator⧽links⧼dot-separator⧽edit)
{{tic|Hatnote}}	Template:Hatnote (talk links edit)
{{tim|Hatnote}}	m:Template:Hatnote (backlinks edit)
{{tiw|Hatnote}}	Template:Hatnote (backlinks edit)
{{tlt|Hatnote}}	{{Hatnote}} (talk)
{{ttl|Hatnote}}	{{Hatnote}} (t/l)
{{twlh|Hatnote}}	Template:Hatnote (links, talk)