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 and source parameters.

Note: Block quotes do normally contain quotation marks. See MOS:Blockquote.

Next to left-floated images: The variant template will work around a CSS bug, in which the block quotation does not indent if it is next to a left-floated image. , this problem and the fix for it has been reported to Mediawiki talk:Common.css. It is not known when this will be fixed. After it is fixed, this variant template can be replaced with the stock.

Synopsis
Unnamed (positional) parameters This markup will fail if any parameter contains an equals sign.

Numbered (positional) parameters

Named parameters

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

The source title is enclosed in , thus it shows italicized.

Restrictions
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.

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 }	} }

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.