Template:Blockquote/doc

Usage
adds a block quotation to an article page.

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

Note: Block quotes do not normally contain quotation marks. See MOS:Blockquote.

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.

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 sign is not given, source does not display.

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.

TemplateData
{ "description": "Adds a block quotation.", "params": { "text": { "label": "text", "description": "The text to quote", "type": "string", "required": false, "aliases": [ "1", "quote" ] },   "sign": { "label": "sign", "description": "The person being quoted", "type": "string", "required": false, "aliases": [ "2", "cite" ] },   "source": { "label": "source", "description": "A source for the quote", "type": "string", "required": false, "aliases": [ "3" ] } } }

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.