Template:!/doc

This is a metatemplate intended to escape a character or group of characters in other templates that would otherwise be difficult to use with wikimarkup. The canonical example of this is the pipe character, which is heavily used in ParserFunctions. See wikipedia:Template:! for more information and examples.

Character escape templates
Allows equals signs to be used in unnamed parameters. Inserts extra padding after an opening parenthesis, when the parenthesized content is italicized but the parentheses are not. Inserts extra padding before a closing parenthesis, when the parenthesized content is italicized but the parentheses are not.