| 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 |
