| Template | Example output | Use |
|---|
| {{strong}} | Important! | To indicate 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 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 |
| {{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 |
| {{tag}} | "The <img>...</img> tags ..." | To render HTML elements ("tags") in prose |
| {{code}} | "Ensure the alt= parameter ..." | To indicate text is source code. To nest other templates within {{code}}, use <code>...</code>. |
| {{pre}} | [this is a block template] | For larger blocks of source code and other pre-formatted text |
| {{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 |
