Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-25095215-20190309035648

Hi there! I'm making a small wiki for myself and some friends about a fan work we're creating. I'm creating a guide to format the wiki so that my friends don't get confused and have made a template that creates a coloured box to use when I need to give an example of formatting. Inside this box is text that the user can edit when setting up the template.

I want to be able to enter wikitext (, – , etc.) and not have it interpreted as wikitext. At one point I used  tags around my   input and, naturally, it was not interpreted as an input and thus wasn't included in my template.

The template in its current form is available at the FormattingExample page on my wiki. Is there any way that I can achieve my goal (enter wikitext when using the template and have it shown in the article as plaintext)? 