Category:Formatting templates

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This category is a "template category". It is used to categorise pages which are in the template namespace. The category is part of the Wikipedia project infrastructure and should not be used to categorise pages belonging to other namespaces, in particular project main namespace pages such as articles.
For this namespace Category:Wikipedia templates is the top (root level) template category.

Description
Formatting templates are used to modify the appearance or position of text or other elements on Wikipedia pages.

Function templates produce units of text or other elements that are otherwise difficult or tedious to render. Some should be substituted, using this syntax: {{subst:template_name|parameter/s}}.

Conversion templates may do a little of both as is discussed in Category talk:Conversion templates.

How to add a template to this category

To add a template to this category, use the following code at the end of the template:

<noinclude>
[[Category:Formatting templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]
</noinclude>

If you add this code at the end of the template, please make sure that the opening <noinclude> starts on the same line as the last char of the template code. Experience confirmed by experiments revealed that some templates became seriously defunct when that rule was violated.