Editing Help:Editing (section)

== How do templates work? ==

When editing the source of the page, you might see text that's been placed between curly brackets, like so:

<pre><nowiki>{{ItemLink|Copper Ore}}</nowiki></pre>

This is what we call a template. Templates are pre-coded code snippets that will automatically replace the curly brackets section.

The template syntax always starts with a double left curly bracket, ''<nowiki>{{</nowiki>'', followed by the template name, in this case ''ItemLink''. If the template has arguments that can change its content, they are added after the template name separated with vertical bar, like ''|Copper Ore''. At the end, we find the closing right curly brackets ''}}''.

Arguments can be anonymous, like the previous example, where you only write the content that should be shown, or named, where you have to specify the name of the content to change, like in this example:

<pre><nowiki>{{ItemFloat|name=Copper Ore|type=Ore|description=A raw copper nuget.|value=6}}</nowiki></pre>