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{{Strong}} | Important! | To indicate <strong> importance, seriousness, or urgency instead of just simple typographical boldfacing
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{{Strongbad}} | "Never use ..." | Same as {{Strong}} but in red
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{{Stronggood}} | "Only use ..." | Same as {{Strong}} but in green
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{{Em}} | "An emphatic phrase" | To indicate <Em> stress emphasis (not just purely typographical italicization like for book titles or foreign terms)
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{{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, {{Varserif}} should be used to ensure a noticeable distinction
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{{Varserif}} | strIllustratePrefix | (see {{Var}} above)
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{{Tld}} | {{DEFAULTSORT:Y, X}} | To display wikicode variables and magic words as they would appear in code
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{{Para}} | |year=2008 | To display template parameters with or without values
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{{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
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{{Tlx}} etc. | {{Template|1|2|...|10}} | To display a template call (with or without parameters and values) as code
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{{Tag}} | "The <img>...</img> tags ..." | To render HTML elements ("tags") in prose
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{{Code}}/{{Codett}} | "Ensure the alt= | To indicate text is source code. To nest other templates within {{Code}}, use <Code>...</Code>. {{Codett}} differs only in styling: someMethodsomeMethod |
{{subst:codenowiki}} | {{Small|small text}} | To wrap example code in <code><nowiki>...</nowiki></code> |
{{subst:kbdnowiki}} | {{big|big text}} | 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
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{{Deprecated code}} | "Do not use <blink>." | ( or {{Deprecated code}} ) 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>).
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{{Pre}} | [this is a block template] | For larger blocks of source code and other Pre-formatted text
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{{Quote}} | [this is a block template] | For block quotations (only – never for non-quotations)
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{{Block indent}} | [this is a block template] | For indented blocks of material; visually identical to {{Quote}} but without quote markup
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{{Kbd}} | user input | To indicate user input
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{{Key press}} | Ctrl+x | To indicate specific-keystroke input, including combinations
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{{Key top}} | Left shift | Similar; includes more symbols, but does not directly support combinations
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{{PlayStation key press}} | □ | To indicate PlayStation-style gamepad key presses
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{{Button}} | Don't save | To indicate a button in a user interface
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{{Samp}} | example output | To indicate sample or example output
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