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<div style="border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa;margin-bottom:2ex;padding:3px;text-align: left;font-weight: bold;font-size: 110%;">Templates that use this Template</div> | <div style="border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa;margin-bottom:2ex;padding:3px;text-align: left;font-weight: bold;font-size: 110%;">Templates that use this Template</div> | ||
{{Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}|namespace=10}} | {{Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}|namespace=10}} | ||
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</includeonly><noinclude>{{Documentation}}</noinclude> | </includeonly><noinclude>{{Documentation}}</noinclude> | ||
Revision as of 04:06, 28 March 2016
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This is a metatemplate; that is, a template that will rarely be used directly in articles, but rather used in other templates which will be used directly. |
This template is used to display the documentation for templates, including itself.
To write documentation for the template Template:Foobar, edit the document Template:Foobar/doc.
Then to use this template, include
<noinclude>{{Documentation}}</noinclude>
at the bottom of the template itself.
So Template:Foobar looks like:
(... all the actual template code ...)
<noinclude>{{Documentation}}</noinclude>
And Template:Foobar/doc looks like:
Here's some helpful instructions on using the Foobar template ...