Template:Code
{{{1}}}
Template:High-risk Template:Expensive
Usage[ཞུན་དག།]
Wraps a short span of text in <syntaxhighlight> tags (see mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight). This template should be used for short samples; longer content should use Template:Tag or Template:Tag. See Help:Wiki markup for an explanation of what the various tags do.
If the content includes an equals sign (=), you must specify the parameter explicitly: Template:Tji.
The template uses the Template:Tag tag with the attribute inline=1. This works like the combination of the Template:Tag and Template:Tag tags, applied to the expanded wikitext. For example, Template:Tji will not render the word "wiki" in bold, and will render the tripled-single-quotes:
some '''wiki''' text
If the above example is declared as wikitext (via Template:Tji, the output is rendered as follows:
some '''wiki''' text
However, Template:Tji will still invoke the template:
a [[:Template:Template]] call
Use Template:Tag around the template name to avoid this problem:
a {{template}} call
When used inline with regular text, Template:Tnull generally looks best and is easiest to read when it is explicitly spaced apart from the regular text:
foo {{code|bar baz}} quux.
is well spaced:
- foo
bar bazquux.
versus:
foo {{code|bar baz}} quux.
which is less visually clear:
- foo
bar bazquux.
because "foo" and "bar" will seem more closely associated than "bar" and "baz"; the width of the space character in a monospaced font is almost always larger than in a proportional font.
Use parameter {{{2}}} (unnamed, as Template:Para, or more explicitly as Template:Para) to specify a language for mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight. This option defaults to Template:Para, i.e. no highlighting. Valid values include Template:Para for wikitext, Template:Para for HTML, along with many other languages including php, perl, css, javascript, mysql. Attempting to use an invalid value for lang will cause the page to be added to Category:Pages with syntax highlighting errors, and no syntax highlighting will be present in the output. html4strict and html5 used to be valid values - however, Template:Para should be used instead.
This template does not need to be substituted.
Examples[ཞུན་དག།]
Included templates[ཞུན་དག།]
Embedded templates do not function as expected inside {{code}}; for longer, free-form blocks of code, which can contain templates such as {{var}} and {{samp}}, use Template:Tag as a wrapper instead of this template.
Templates used inside {{code}} expose the rendered HTML— this can be useful. For example:
The above example shows the HTML rendered by the citation template, including the hidden metadata.
Expensive Parser Function warning[ཞུན་དག།]
This template internally uses mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight, which is considered an 'expensive parser function' (see WP:EXPENSIVE). If used on a page which uses more than 500 expensive parser functions, the output of subsequent uses of this template will be presented using Template:Tag formatting (without any syntax highlighting) instead.
TemplateData[ཞུན་དག།]
See also[ཞུན་དག།]
- {{PreCode}}, which forbids line breaks inside the code
- {{codett}}, wrapper for this template that removes background and border styling
- {{mono}}, monospaced font only
- {{param value}}, monospaced; friendly handling for blank space
- {{Syntaxhighlight}}
- {{kbd}}, for keyboard input
- Help:Wiki markup