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Changes to it can cause immediate changes to the Wikimedia user interface.
To avoid major disruption, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Please discuss changes on the talk page before implementing them.

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This template is for example called from autotranslatable templates and is used to apply the "lang" and "dir" attributes to the span tag containing the text. It also adds CSS classes, that for example allow CSS highlighting text that is in a specific language.

Usage

This template tags the wrapped text with the "description" CSS class, which will cause Media Viewer to display that text. In a file context, the template should therefore only be used to wrap text that is useful as a file description. Do not use this as a general-purpose language tagging template; most of the time it is sufficient to directly add the necessary HTML attributes instead (example), with wikitext like <div lang="{{#bcp47:LANG}}" dir="{{#dir:LANG}}">TEXT</div>.

Template parameters

Parameter	Description		Default	Status
`1`	language code	Language code. For a list of language codes to use for parameter 1 see w:List of ISO 639-1 codes.	empty	required
`2`	text		empty	required

Template data

Parameter text is empty

TemplateData

TemplateData is a way to store information about template parameters (the description of those and of the whole template) for both humans and machines. It is used by VisualEditor and possibly other tools like Upload Wizard.

Existing template documentation
At Wikimedia Commons, it is recommended to use {{TemplateBox}} with either ‎useTemplateData=1 or ‎useTemplateData=only on the ‎/doc subpage and transcluding it with {{Documentation}} into the template. ‎<nowiki>-tags can be wrapped around the arguments, if required, to avoid templates being expanded.

Newly created template documentation and imports
Another option, especially for imported templates, or for users with JSON experience, is placing raw ‎<templatedata>-tags into the Wikitext of the template, as described in various Wikipediae.

Wikipedia's help about TemplateData • Commons-specific information

This template is for example called from autotranslatable templates and is used to apply the "lang" and "dir" attributes to the span tag containing the text. It also adds CSS classes, that for example allow CSS highlighting text that is in a specific language.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
language code	`1`	Language code. For a list of language codes to use for parameter 1 see "List of ISO 639-1 codes" on the English Wikipedia.	Line	required
text	`2`		String	required

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: all namespaces

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

Localization

This template is not intended to be localized.

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-<div lang="{{{1}}}" dir="{{#dir:{{{1}}}}}" class="description {{{1}}}" style="display:inline;">{{{2}}}</div><noinclude>
+<div lang="{{{1|}}}" dir="{{#dir:{{{1|}}}}}" class="description {{{1|}}}" style="display:inline;">{{{2}}}</div><noinclude>
 {{Documentation}}
 [[Category:Internationalization templates]]
 </noinclude>