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This page is about designing templates more than using them. For details of how to use existing templates, see [[Project:Markup syntax|Markup syntax]] or the documentation for [[Special:AllPages/Template:|any template]].
This page is about designing templates more than using them. For details of how to use existing templates, see [[Help:Editing]] or the documentation for [[Special:AllPages/Template:|any template]].





Revision as of 12:15, 24 March 2012

This page is about designing templates more than using them. For details of how to use existing templates, see Help:Editing or the documentation for any template.


Including

To include a template---or any page---in another page:


If-templates

Templates have a limited condition-testing functionality. The following were based on code from the MediaWiki manuals:

{{Ifn|value|result}}
Yields result if value isn't blank. (Compare shell's if [ -n "value" ]; then result; fi) One limitation: {{ifn|2=result}} yields result (but works properly if value is defined and empty).
{{Ifz|value|result}}
Yields result if value is blank. (Compare shell's if [ -z "value" ]; then result; fi)
{{If|value|resultyes|resultno}}
Yields resultyes if value isn't blank; otherwise it yields resultno. (Compare shell's if [ -n "value"]; then resultyes; else resultno; fi) One limitation: {{if|2=resultyes}} yields resultyes (but works properly if value is defined and empty, or resultno is defined).
{{Ifeq|value|test|resultyes|resultno}}
Yields resultyes if value equals test; otherwise it yields resultno. (Compare shell's if ["value" = test ]; then resultyes; else resultno; fi)


Template arguments

In the template's expansion markup, {{{1}}} will expand to the first (implicitly named) argument, and {{{2|default}}} will expand to the second but default to default if the second argument is not supplied. Note that if the template is invoked as {{Foo|arg1|}}, then the second argument has been supplied; here it's the empty string.

Arguments can also be explicitly named/numbered, as when you invoke {{Foo|bar=arg1|2=}}. Arguments supplied in these ways have leading and trailing whitespace trimmed. (Whitespace is preserved when arguments are only implicitly named.)

To suppress expansion of an argument's contents, wrap {{{argument}}} with {{#tag:nowiki|...}}; see Template:Cat for an example.

Inside a template's expansion markup, substrings beginning with *, #, :, or ; are automatically prefixed by a newline. Use start{{{dummy|;}}}finish to generate start;finish. (The empty string may be used for dummy.)

{{ns:0}} expands to the empty string.


Skeleton for a new template

<noinclude>{{Template}}
Short description.

=== Usage ===
Longer description.

<pre>{{Foo|arg}}</pre>

Further comments.

=== Example ===

<pre>{{Foo|arg}}</pre>

will produce:
{{Foo|arg}}

=== See also ===

* [[:Template:Bar]]

</noinclude><includeonly>EXPANSION</includeonly>