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This template does nothing visually. Technically, it throws away its parameters and outputs the null string.

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.

It can also be used to temporarily disable code, and unlike "commenting out" with <syntaxhighlight lang=html inline></syntaxhighlight>, it nests. This means that <code><nowiki>{{void|foo {{void|bar}} baz}}</nowiki></code> is valid, whereas <syntaxhighlight lang=html inline> baz --></syntaxhighlight> will produce <code> baz --></code>.

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>.

Another possible application would be to temporarily disable an infobox on an article page while a problem with the infobox template itself is resolved.

==Alternatives==
It's also possible to use <code><nowiki>{{ns:0}}</nowiki></code>, the empty/void/null string for the main [[Help:Namespace|namespace]].

It can be used in place of {{tag|nowiki|single}} 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.

== TemplateData ==
{{TemplateData header}}
<TemplateData>
{"description": {
"en": "A template to show the null string, i.e. nothing. Any parameters are accepted and ignored.",
"cs": "Šablona pro zobrazení nulového řetězce, tedy nic. Všechny parametry jsou přijímány a ignorovány."
},
"params": {
}
}
</TemplateData>

<includeonly>{{Sandbox other||
[[Category:Formatting templates]]
}}</includeonly>

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