This is a documentation subpage for Template:Bracket. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see Wikipedia:COinS.

This template provides a way to wrap wiki markup in (single) square brackets. More importantly, it helps to keep the markup free of line noise and thus easier to edit.

Usage

• {{bracket|[[Wikipedia:Example]]}} → [ Wikipedia:Example]
• {{bracket}} → [

Function

This template is a simple wrapper around the [ and ] HTML entities that produce starting and ending brackets, respectively.

The template cannot output just an ending bracket. You will have to use ] to produce the "]" ending bracket.

This template is not necessary in Citation Style 1 templates. You can simply use square brackets, and they will be treated as ordinary text (and not wiki markup) when it constructs links.

See also

• Template:Sic
• Template:Typo
• Template:Brackets – to wrap content in double square brackets
• Template:Brace