| Template | Example output | Use |
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| {{strong}} | Important! | To indicate <strong> importance, seriousness, or urgency instead of just simple typographical boldfacing |
| {{strongbad}} | "Never use ..." | Same as ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Braces but in red |
| {{stronggood}} | "Only use ..." | Same as ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Braces 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, ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Braces should be used to ensure a noticeable distinction |
| {{var serif}} | ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Var serif | (see ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Braces 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}} | ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Param | To display parameters as used in code (i.e. with triple braces), especially to indicate relationships between them. May be combined with ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Braces above |
| {{tjp}} | ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Tjp | 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 ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Braces, use <code>...</code>. {{codett}} differs only in styling: someMethod becomes ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Codett |
| {{PreCode}} | "FORTH has keyword ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:PreCode." | Like {{code}}, but prevents line breaks inside the code. Only for very short code parts. |
| ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Tls | {{small|small text example}} | To wrap example code in <code><nowiki>...</nowiki></code> |
| ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Tls | {{large|large text example}} | To wrap example code in <kbd><nowiki>...</nowiki></kbd> |
| {{syntaxhighlight}} | [this is a block template] | (ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Thin space) Wrapper for <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>, but will wrap overflowing text |
| {{deprecated code}} | "Do not use <blink>." | (ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Thin space) To indicate deprecated source code in template documentation, articles on HTML specs, etc. The {{dc2}} variant uses strike-through (<ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Dc2>) while {{dcr}} uses red (<ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Dcr>). |
| {{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}} | ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Key press | To indicate specific-keystroke input, including combinations |
| {{key top}} | ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Key top | Similar; includes more symbols, but does not directly support combinations |
| {{button}} | ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Button | To indicate a button in a user interface |
| {{samp}} | ᥗᥦᥛᥰ ᥙᥣ ᥘᥥᥐᥳ:Samp | To indicate sample or example output |
