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This is a documentation subpage for Template:Tl.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

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The template link template is a simple macro template used to display a template name as a link surrounded by braces, thus showing how the template name would be used in code. Its primary use is in instruction and documentation. A short example is that the code:

{{Tl|Example}}

generates

More complex variations are described below.

Example

Code	Result
`{{Tl\|Void}}`	{{Void}}
`{{Tl2\|X1}}`	`{{X1}}`
`{{Tl2\|SISTER=M:\|3x}}`	`{{3x}}`
`{{Tl2\|SISTER=wikibooks\|LANG=de:\|WP}}`	`{{WP}}`
`{{Tl\|1==)}}`	{{=)}}