Template:Blockquote/doc

Usage
adds a block quotation to an article page.

This is easier to type and is more wiki-like than the equivalent HTML  tags, and has additional pre-formatted attribution parameters for author and source.

Note: Block quotes do normally contain quotation marks.

Synopsis

 * Basic use::

Parameters
text a.k.a. 1 The material being quoted, without quotation marks around it. It is always safest to name this parameter (rather than use an unnamed positional parameter), because any inclusion of the = character (e.g. in a URL in a source citation) will otherwise break the template.

author a.k.a. 2 Attribution information that will appear below the quotation.

source a.k.a. 3 Title of the work the quote appears in. This parameter immediately follows the output of author (and an auto-generated comma); it does not auto-italicize. Major works (books, plays, albums, feature films, etc.) should be italicized; minor works (articles, chapters, poems, songs, TV episodes, etc.) go in quotation marks. Both can be given at once: "The Aerodynamics of Shaved Weasels", Perspectives on Mammal Barbering.

Reference citations
A reference citation can be placed:  In the regular-prose introduction to the quotation:  At the end of the quotation, when a quotation is given without author or source (e.g. because the material before the quote makes it clear who is being quoted):  After the quoted person's name, in author, when a source is not being added:  After the source title, in source (the preferred location when both attribution parameters are present):  

Please do not place the citation in a author or source parameter by itself, as it will produce a nonsensical attribution line that looks like: —&#8239; Please also do not put it just outside the template, as this will cause a: on a line by itself.

Style
Styling is applied through CSS rules in MediaWiki:Common.css. HTML:

Limitations
If you do not provide text, the template generates a parser error message, which will appear in red text in the rendered page.

If any parameter's actual value contains an equals sign, you must use named parameters or a blank-name parameter, as: (the text before the equals sign gets interpreted as a named parameter otherwise).

If any parameter's actual value contains characters used for wiki markup syntax (such as pipe, brackets, single quotation marks, etc.), you may need to escape it. See Template:! and friends.

Be wary of URLs which contain restricted characters. The equals sign is especially common.

Put a break (newline) after the template, or the next blank line might be ignored.

As noted above, the source parameter will forcibly italicize all content in it; this is often undesirable, in which case include the material in the author parameter.

Preserving line breaks and spacing from the original
Use  around material, such as poems and interlinear glosses, that require that whitespace formatting be preserve as in the original. Due to limitations of how MediaWiki parses wikimarkup and HTML, attempts to do this by just inserting blank lines and extra spaces will not work. This is true of all block elements, not just block quotations.

Next to right-floated boxes
, the text of a block quotation may rarely overflow (in Firefox or other Gecko browsers) a right-floated item (e.g. a box, when that item is below another right-floated item of a fixed size that is narrower. In Safari and other Webkit browsers (and even more rarely in Chrome/Chromium) the same condition can cause the block quotation to be pushed downward.  Both of these problems can be fixed by either: There may be other solutions, and future browser upgrades may eliminate the issue. It arises at all because of the   CSS declaration in Mediawiki:Common.css, which itself works around other, more common display problems. A solution that fixes  of the issues is unknown at this time.
 * 1) removing the sizing on the upper item and letting it use its default size (e.g. removing   sizing or upright from a right-floated image above a wider right-floated object that is being overflowed by quotation text; or
 * 2) using undefined in the quotation template.

Vanishing quotes
In rare layout cases, e.g. when quotes are sandwiched between userboxes, a quotation may appear blanked out, in some browsers. The workaround for this problem is to add overflow:inherit; to such an instance of the template.

TemplateData
{	"description": "Adds a block quotation.", "params": { "text": { "label": "text", "description": "The text to quote", "type": "content", "required": true, "aliases": [ "1",				"quote" ],			"example": "Cry \"Havoc\" and let slip the dogs of war." },		"sign": { "label": "sign", "description": "The person being quoted", "type": "content", "required": false, "aliases": [ "2",				"cite", "author" ],			"example": "William Shakespeare", "suggested": true },		"source": { "label": "source", "description": "A source for the quote", "type": "content", "required": false, "aliases": [ "3"			],			"example": "Julius Caesar, act III, scene I", "suggested": true }	} }

Errors
Pages where this template is not used correctly populate Category:Pages incorrectly using the quote template.

Known problems
This template sets a text style which might ignore one blank line, and so the template must be ended with a break (newline). Otherwise, beware inline, as: More text here spans a blank line
 * text here "this is quoted"

Unless a "xx" is ended with a line break, then the next blank line might be ignored and two paragraphs joined.