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A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. It usually contains repetitive material that may need to show up on multiple articles or pages, often with customizable input. Templates sometimes use MediaWiki parser functions, nicknamed "magic words", a simple scripting language. Template pages are found in the template ...
The MediaWiki software, which drives Wikipedia, allows the use of a subset of HTML 5 elements, or tags and their attributes, for presentation formatting. [1] However, most HTML functionality can be replicated using equivalent wiki markup or templates.
In MediaWiki, templates cannot automatically handle an unknown or unlimited number of parameters. Each possible parameter usually has to be predefined in the template code. For example, a template might be set up to use three specific parameters, such as 1, 2, and 3. If someone includes additional parameters beyond those, they will not affect ...
The {} template uses HTML, and will size-match a serif font, and will also prevent line-wrap. All templates are sensitive to the = sign, so remember to replace = with {} in template input, or start the input with 1=. Use wiki markup '' and ''' inside the {} template, as well as other HTML entities.
Use proper markup: Employ careful wiki markup- or template-based list code (see Help:List for many pointers). Especially do not leave blank lines between items in a list, since this causes the MediaWiki software to misinterpret each item as beginning a new list. (There are HTML techniques to insert linebreaks or additional paragraphs into a ...
For a full list of editing commands, see Help:Wikitext; For including parser functions, variables and behavior switches, see Help:Magic words; For a guide to displaying mathematical equations and formulas, see Help:Displaying a formula; For a guide to editing, see Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia
In lists of links such as inside infoboxes and navboxes, use a horizontal list (perhaps via the template {}) to format lists. For occasional cases where you need to delineate two pieces of text outside of a list, you can use the templates {{·}} or {{•}} which contain a before the dot, thus handling some of the wrapping problems.
This navbox is intended for use at the bottom of the documentation pages of list-generating and -formatting templates. It takes no parameters. The above documentation is transcluded from Template:HTML lists/doc .