Template:Hint

NOTE: This template should be used only for hints and other secondary information. Use Template:Instruction or Template:Advice for instruction sets or other essential/very important information that needs to be emphasized. For the current list of available templates, see Category:Templates.

Usage of Hint Template

The text should be reasonably concise (preferably one or two sentences) so as not to dominate the main contents of the article. Should a longer hint be needed, consider making it a separate section, or if necessary a separate page linked to on the current page. If a second paragraph is needed in the hint, you can use ENTER on the keyboard to create one, just as in normal editing.

General usage:

Example:

Typing this:

will produce this:

Special cases:

If the text must contain the equals sign "=", use &quot;1=&quot; after the pipe symbol "|" thus:

If other essential symbols in the text still cause it to display incorrectly, try enclosing the text after the pipe inside      tags. This solution would also work with the above example:

However,     tags will not work if you need to use another template inside the Hint template, as they will prevent the other templates being parsed. In this case, the only solution is to precede the entire text string after the first pipe by 1=, like this:

which produces:

Note also that in this example the second template must itself contain the 1= prefix, as its URL contains an equals sign.

Ignore the following, it's only a representation of formatting and a parameter dummy.