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{{tsh|^|Nul|Null}}<br />
{{high-use|8500}}<br />
This template does nothing visually. Technically, it throws away its parameters and outputs the null string.<br />
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It is useful for programming advanced templates, and is often used within a template to the right of an equals sign. It may also be used in a template to disambiguate parsing of braces.<br />
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It can also be used to temporarily disable code, and unlike "commenting out" with <code><nowiki><!-- --></nowiki></code>, it nests. This means that <code><nowiki>{{void|foo {{void|bar}} baz}}</nowiki></code> is valid, whereas <code><nowiki><!-- foo <!-- bar --> baz --></nowiki></code> will produce <code><!-- foo <!-- bar --> baz --></code>.<br />
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It provides a particularly concise way of temporarily disabling ''templates'', by prefixing them with <code>^|</code>, so the template name becomes the (ignored) first unnamed parameter. For example, suppose you have a page {{tlx|Under construction}} for several days, and wish to change that to {{tlx|In use}} during active editing sessions. Rather than delete the unused template, you can leave both templates in the wikisource and change from <code><nowiki>{{^|In use|...}}{{Under construction|...}}</nowiki></code> to <code><nowiki>{{In use|...}}{{^|Under construction|...}}</nowiki></code>.<br />
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Another possible application would be to temporarily disable an infobox on an article page while a problem with the infobox template itself is resolved.<br />
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==Alternatives==<br />
{{Tl|Null}} redirects here. It's also possible to use <code><nowiki>{{ns:0}}</nowiki></code>, the empty/void/null string for the main [[m:Help:Namespace|namespace]].<br />
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It can be used in place of <code><nowiki><nowiki/></nowiki></code> to break character sequence parsing, for example <code><nowiki>{{nowrap|{''a''}{{null}}}}</nowiki></code> to force the first closing brace to be treated as part of the template parameter instead of as the end of the template expression.<br />
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== TemplateData ==<br />
{{TemplateData header}}<br />
<TemplateData>{"description":"A template to show the null string, i.e. nothing. Any parameters are accepted and ignored.","params":{}}</TemplateData><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Template:Nothing]] - a template that displays an invisible HTML tag<br />
* [[Template:Text]] - a template that just displays its first parameter unchanged.<br />
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[[Category:Wikipedia formatting and function templates]]<br />
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