Does <template> tag not work in ionic2?

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
1

I was attempting to use the tag to have both *ngFor and *ngIf and it just wouldn’t render. Is that as expected?

For now I’ve substituted it with the span tag.

2

It works fine, but you don’t want to put the star in front of it.

3

Star in front of which one? I started with the code below and removed the * in front of each in turn. None of them render.

<template *ngFor="let p of pages" >
  <button menuClose ion-item (click)="openPage(p)" *ngIf='p.isVisible'>
    <ion-icon name='{{p.icon}}' class='menu-icon'></ion-icon>
    {{p.title}}
  </button>
</template>
4 
<template ngFor let-p [ngForOf]="pages">
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5

Thank you.

Looks like the syntax for the template tag is different from others. I assumed it would be similar, and probably should have looked it up prior. So my apologies also for a probably unnecessary question.