This template provide a way to display text without wikification. It provides an alternative to <nowiki> tags and is more consistent with wiki markup syntax.

{{nowiki|[[example]]}} → [[example]]

Templates, parameters, parser functions, and parser magic such as signatures (~~~~) and the pipe trick are parsed in the argument to this template where they are not with <nowiki> tags:

  • <nowiki>{{tl|nowiki}}</nowiki> → {{tl|nowiki}}
  • {{nowiki|{{tl|nowiki}}}} → <span class="nowrap">{{</span>[[Template:nowiki|nowiki]]<span class="nowrap">}}</span>