Template:Intricate/doc

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Description
This is the message box.

redirects here and can be used as alternative name for this template.

Actually, this template's syntax is relatively simple.

This template can be put at the top of the documentation for any templates that are intricate, i.e., complex, using less obvious techniques, esoteric syntax, combining different techniques, used as parameter for other templates, built to function for a variety of calling instances, etc.

Usage
When this template is placed on a template's documentation page, it is preferable to put it within  tags to render it visible only on the template page. Thus, the coding at the top of a documentation page would look like this: