Template:Eval/doc

Not to be confused with Template:Expand wikitext.

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File:Ambox warning yellow.svgThis template employs intricate features of template syntax.

You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
You can conduct experiments, and should test all major changes, in either this template's sandbox, the general template sandbox, or your user space before changing anything here.

File:Commons-emblem-notice.svgThis template should always be substituted (i.e., use {{subst:Eval}}).

Evaluates a template after substitution via metatemplating. Functionally, this template generates {{template}}-style text during substitution, which then gets evaluated when the resulting code is substituted or transcluded.

Usage

{{Eval|templateName|arg1{{!}}arg2{{!}}param{{=}}paramArg}}

Arguments must be separated by {{!}}. Parameter names and their arguments must be separated by {{=}}.

See also

• Help:Metatemplating
• Template:dtag
• Template:eval
• Template:includeonly, Template:noinclude, Template:onlyinclude, and Template:nowiki
• Template:sibling
• Template:TEMPLATENAME and Template:TEMPLATENAMEE
• Template:!
• Template:=
• Template:(( and Template:))
• Template:((( and Template:)))