Template:Template link

This template is used in system messages, and on approximately 7,090,000 pages, or roughly 12% of all pages. Changes to it can cause immediate changes to the Wikipedia user interface. To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandboxor/testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Please discuss changes on the talk page before implementing them.

The template link template is a simple macro template used to display a template name as a link surrounded by braces, thus showing the template name as code rather than actually invoking it. Its primary use is in instruction and documentation where it is used to refer to a template by name without invoking it.

Note that this template may be used under the name "tee-el" (tl) as well as "tee-one" (t1)— both function the same way and produce the same results. This is not true for all such visually confusing templates containing a possible 1/l mix-up as they are not interchangeable.

{{Tla}} works exactly like {{tl}} with the addition of optionally displaying alternative label text (link label). {{tlg}} can include the use of parameters in the template (as {{{1}}}).

• 1 Examples
• 2 TemplateData
• 3 See also
  • 3.1 General-purpose formatting
  • 3.2 Other formatting templates
  • 3.3 With utility links

A short example of its use is:

{{tl|Example}}

which generates

{{Example}}

Other longer examples:

• Template:tl2 (backlinks edit)
• Template:tl (backlinks edit)
• Template:tlp (backlinks edit) to produce a [t]emplate [l]ink with a single [p]arameter.
• Template:tlx (backlinks edit) to produce a [t]emplate [l]ink with an e[x]panded number of parameters.
• Template:tlsp (backlinks edit) to produce a [t]emplate [l]ink that's [s]ubst:ituted, with a single [p]arameter.
• Template:lts (backlinks edit)
• Template:tlu (backlinks edit), tl or tlp in any namespace.
• Category:Internal template-link templates(edit talk links history)
• Template:tl-r (backlinks edit) to produce a [t]emplate [l]ink to a template [r]edirect.

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{{Hatnote
    | Some text
    | selfref = yes
    | category =no| lang =fr}}

{{hatnote|lang=fr|Some text}}

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