| 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 |
