| 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 <(削除) blink (削除ここまで)>." | ( or {{dc}} ) To indicate deprecated source code in template documentation, articles on HTML specs, etc. The {{dc2}} variant uses strike-through (<(削除) blink (削除ここまで)>) while {{dcr}} uses red (<(削除) blink (削除ここまで)>). |
| {{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 |
