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 This is a documentation subpage for Template:Tag. It contains usage information, categories, interlanguage links and other content that is not part of the original template page.  | 
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This template provides a quick way to mention an XML-style tag in a preformatted way. Mainly used in discussion/help pages.
Usage
- first parameter — (mandatory) the name of the HTML tag
 - second parameter — what type of tag to display:
porpair– (default) display a matched pair of open-and-close tags:<font>...</font>- To suppress the ellipsis which appears between the tags, add an empty 
|content=parameter 
- To suppress the ellipsis which appears between the tags, add an empty 
 ooropen– display only the opening tag of an open-and-close pair:<span>corclose– display only the closing tag of an open-and-close pair:</span>sorsingle– display a single tag:<br />
 - content= — the text content of the tags
 - params= — any parameters to be included in the opening tag
 
Examples
{{tag|ref}}→<ref>...</ref>{{tag|ref|content=}}→<ref></ref>{{tag|ref|content=hello}}→<ref>hello</ref>{{tag|font|content=foo}}→<font>foo</font>{{tag|font|open}}→<font>{{tag|font|open|content=hello}}→<font>hello{{tag|span|close|content=hello}}→hello</span>{{tag|span|pair|content=hello}}→<span>hello</span>{{tag|ref|open|params=group="note"}}→<ref group="note">{{tag|references|single}}→<references />{{tag|br|single}}→<br />
See also
- {{xtag}} adds a MediaWiki parser or extension tag that links to the extension page.
 - The #tag: parserfunction generates working tags.
 
