, below). These parameters are entirely optional, and are usually used with famous quotations, not routine block quotations, which are usually sourced at the end of the introductory line immediately before the quotation, with a normal

a.k.a.

– optional title of the work the quote appears in, to display below the quotation. This parameter immediately follows the output of

(and an auto-generated comma), if one is provided. 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

(see ). Additional citation information can be provided in a fourth parameter,

|source=

, below, which will appear after the title.

|source= a.k.a. |4= – optionally used for additional source information to display, after |title=, like so: |title="The Aerodynamics of Shaved Weasels" |source=''Perspectives on Mammal Barbering'', 2016; a comma will be auto-generated between the two parameters. If |source= is used without |title=, it simply acts as |title=. (This parameter was added primarily to ease conversion from misuse of the pull quote template {{Quote frame}} for block quotation, but it may aid in cleaner meta-data implementation later.)

|character= a.k.a. |char= or |5= – to attribute fictional speech to a fictional character, with other citation information. Can also be used to attribute real speech to a specific speaker among many, e.g. in a roundtable/panel transcript, a band interview, etc. This parameter outputs "[Character's name], in" after the attribution dash and before the output of the parameters above, thus one or more of those parameters must also be supplied. If you need to cite a fictional speaker in an article about a single work of fiction, where repeating the author and title information would be redundant, you can just use the |author= parameter instead of |character=.

Technically, all citation information can be given in a single parameter, as in: |source=Anonymous interview subject, in Jane G. Arthur, "The Aerodynamics of Shaved Weasels", ''Perspectives on Mammal Barbering'' (2016), Bram Xander Yojimbo (ed.) But this is a bit messy, and will impede later efforts to generate metadata from quotation attribution the way we are already doing with source citations. This is much more usable:

|character=Anonymous interview subject
|author=Jane G. Arthur
|title="The Aerodynamics of Shaved Weasels"
|source=''Perspectives on Mammal Barbering'' (2016), Bram Xander Yojimbo (ed.)


Later development can assign a CSS class and so forth to these separate parameters, upon which scripts would be able to operate (e.g. to look up things in WikiQuote).

Rarely used technical parameters

  • |multiline= – keep forced linebreaks in output.

    Notes:
    • Will only be applied if at least one of these other parameters or its aliases is not empty (including implicit, unnamed parameters):

      |author=, |title=, |source=, or |character=.
    • The value does not matter, as long it is not empty. Using a so called speaking parameter (such as true or yes) is highly recommended. Avoid values that can surprise users (e.g. false or no).
  • |style= – allows specifying additional CSS styles (not classes) to apply to the <blockquote>...</blockquote> element.
  • |class= – allows specifying additional HTML classes to apply to the same element.

Reference citations

A reference citation can be placed before the quote, after the quote, or in the |source= parameter:

  • checkY Typical use: In the regular-prose introduction to the quotation, when a quotation is given without the displayed |author=, |title=, or |source= parameters: According to Pat Doe, in "Underwater Basketweaving Tips" (2015):<ref>...</ref> {{blockquote |text=Quoted material.}}
  • At the end of the quotation, when a quotation is given without the displayed |author=, |title=, or |source= parameters, and placement before the quote isn't appropriate (e.g. because the material immediately before the quote isn't cited to the same source or introduces multiple quotes from different sources: Pat Doe and Chris Foo took opposing positions: {{blockquote |text=Doe's Quoted material.<ref>...</ref>}} {{blockquote |text=Foo's Quoted material.<ref>...</ref>}}
  • After the |source= value (if a value is given for the |source= parameter other than the <ref>...</ref> itself):One expert noted in 2015: {{blockquote |text=Quoted material. |author=Pat Doe |source="Underwater Basketweaving Tips" (2015)<ref>...</ref>}}
  • ☒N Deprecated: After the quoted person's name in |author=, or after the work's title in |title=, when a |source= parameter is not being added: As noted in "Underwater Basketweaving Tips" (2015): {{blockquote |text=Quoted material. |author=Pat Doe<ref>...</ref>}}

    မၢႆတွင်း: Please avoid this format, as it will pollute the author or title metadata with non-author or non-title information.

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 this:

     — [1]

Please also do not put it just outside the {{blockquote}} template, as this will cause a:

     [1]

on a line by itself.

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 a named parameter (e.g. |text="E=MC2" is a formula everyone knows but few understand, not a blank-name positional parameter. The text before the equals sign gets misinterpreted as a named parameter otherwise. Be wary of URLs, which frequently contain this character. Named parameters are always safer, in this and other templates.

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 {{!}} and friends.

Do not combine named and unnamed parameters. For example, if |text= is used for the quotation, followed by an unnamed parameter for the source, the first unnamed parameter will be interpreted as |1= instead of |2=, and it will be ignored. This is a problem inherent in any template that uses multiple unnamed parameters with aliases.

Next to right-floated boxes

တေႃႇထိုင်ဝၼ်းထိ သႅပ်ႇထႅမ်ႇပႃႇ 2015,[update] the text of a block quotation may rarely overflow (in Firefox or other Gecko browsers) a right-floated item (e.g. a {{Listen}} 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:

  1. removing the sizing on the upper item and letting it use its default size (e.g. removing ###x###px sizing or |upright= from a right-floated image above a wider right-floated object that is being overflowed by quotation text; or
  2. using |style=overflow:inherit; in the quotation template.

There may be other solutions, and future browser upgrades may eliminate the issue. It arises at all because of the blockquote {overflow: hidden;} CSS declaration in Mediawiki:Common.css, which itself works around other, more common display problems. A solution that fixes all of the issues is unknown at this time.

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 |style=overflow:inherit; to such an instance of the template.

Line breaks

This template sets a text style which might ignore one blank line, and so the template must be ended with a break (newline) or the next blank line might be ignored. Otherwise, beware inline, as:
     text here {{blockquote|this is quoted}} More text here
spans a blank line, unless a {{blockquote|...}} is ended with a line break, then the next blank line might be ignored and two paragraphs joined.

The <blockquote> element and any templates that use it do not honor newlines:

MarkupRenders as 
<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
<blockquote>
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
</blockquote>
</syntaxhighlight>

Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4

An easy solution is to use the {{poem quote}} template instead of <blockquote>...</blockquote>. This is effectively the same as using the <poem> tag inside <blockquote>, which converts line breaks to <br /> tags:

MarkupRenders as 
<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
<blockquote><poem>
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
</poem></blockquote>
</syntaxhighlight>

Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4

To markup actual paragraphs within block quotations, entire blank lines can be used between them, which will convert to <p>...</p> tags:

MarkupRenders as 
<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
<blockquote>
Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3
</blockquote>
</syntaxhighlight>

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3

Note that it may be necessary to put a line break in the wikitext before <blockquote> and after </blockquote> in order for the paragraphs to render with the intended separation. (This also makes the wikitext easier to read.)

This paragraph style also works with {{blockquote}}, which is a replacement for <tag> that also has parameters to make formatting of the attribution more convenient and consistent.

Blockquote and templates that call it, and are indented with colon (:), bulleted with asterisk (*), or numbered with number (#), may generate errors and incorrectly display anything after a newline character. To ensure that the blockquote displays properly, put all of the wikitext on a single line, with no manual line breaks, like this, ending with the </blockquote> tag or the closing braces of the template still on the same line:

MarkupRenders as 
<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
:<blockquote>Paragraph 1<br>Paragraph 2</blockquote>
</syntaxhighlight>
MarkupRenders as 
<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
*{{blockquote|Paragraph 1<br>Paragraph 2}}
</syntaxhighlight>
MarkupRenders as 
<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
#<blockquote>Paragraph 1<br>Paragraph 2</blockquote>
</syntaxhighlight>

Nested quotations

The <blockquote>...</blockquote> element has styles that change the font size: on desktop, text is smaller; on mobile, it is larger. This change is relative to the enclosing context, meaning that if you quote from a source that itself uses a block quotation, you'll find that the inner quotation is either really tiny and hard to read, or really large and barely fits on the screen. To fix this issue, add the parameter |style=font-size:inherit; on any inner {{blockquote}} templates.

TemplateData

Template parameters[ၸတ်းၵၢၼ် ၶေႃႈမုၼ်းထႅမ်းပလဵၵ်ႉ]

Parameterၶေႃႈသပ်းလႅင်းTypeStatus
texttext 1 quote

The text to quote

Example
Cry "Havoc" and let slip the dogs of war.
Contentrequired
authorauthor 2 cite sign

The writer of the source

Example
William Shakespeare
Contentsuggested
titletitle 3

The work being quoted from

Example
Julius Caesar
Contentsuggested
sourcesource 4

A source for the quote

Example
act III, scene I
Contentsuggested
charactercharacter 5 char

The speaker within the work who is being quoted

Example
Mark Antony
Contentoptional
multilinemultiline

Keeps forced linebreaks in output

Example
true
Stringoptional
stylestyle

Additional CSS styles (not classes) to apply

Example
font-size:inherit;
Stringoptional
classclass

Additional HTML classes to apply

Example
pullquote
Stringoptional

See also

Template  Use / description 
↓ Block quotations General purpose
{{Blockquote}} Our standard block quotation template: unbordered page-wide quotation with optional smaller-sized attribution
{{Poem}} {{Blockquote}} variant for use with poems, song lyrics, and other things that would otherwise require the use of <poem> tags or frequent formatting elements (such as <br />); requires substitution
{{Poem quote}} {{Blockquote}} variant for use with poems, song lyrics, and other things that would otherwise require the use of <poem> tags or frequent formatting elements (such as <br />); does not require substitution
{{Verse translation}} Displays original language verse (defaults to italics) and translated verse (roman) side-by-side
{{Gbq}} {{Blockquote}} variant for use inside glossaries
{{Cquote}} Page-wide quote, between large quotation marks
{{Rquote}} Quote between large quotation marks in a reduced floating area
{{Quote frame}} Page-wide bordered quote
{{Quote box}} Quote floated in a reduced bordered box
{{Tweet}} For quoting directly from tweets. Automatically generates {{Cite tweet}} citation, or a custom reference can be provided.
  
↓ Talk page quoting Not for use in articles nor the project space at all
{{Talk quote inline}}

(shortcut: {{tq}})

{{tqq}}, {{tqi}}, or {{tqqi}}		 Inline quotation for use on talk pages
{{Not talk quote inline}}

(shortcut: {{!tq}})

{{!tqq}}, {{!tqi}}, or {{!tqqi}}		 Inline quotation for what someone didn't say but could have, or perhaps, should have
{{Talk quote block}}

(shortcut: {{tqb}}, {{tq2}})		 Block-style quotation for use on talk pages
{{Talk quote block minimalist}}

(shortcut: {{tqbm}})		 Minimalist version of above
  
↓ Alternative For indenting non-quotations
{{Block indent}} To indent an entire block of content (uses <div> and CSS margins)

Template  Example output  Use 
{{strong}} Important! To indicate <strong> importance, seriousness, or urgency instead of just simple typographical boldfacing
{{strongbad}} "Never use ..." Same as {{strong}} but in red
{{stronggood}} "Only use ..." Same as {{strong}} but in green
{{em}} "An emphatic phrase" To indicate <em> stress emphasis (not just purely typographical italicization like for book titles or foreign terms)
{{var}} strPrefix To indicate text is a variable name. Use for any variable names except those including "I" (uppercase i) and/or "l" (lowercase L); for these, {{var serif}} should be used to ensure a noticeable distinction
{{var serif}} strIllustratePrefix (see {{var}} above)
{{tld}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Y, X}} To display wikicode variables and magic words as they would appear in code
{{para}} |year=2008 To display template parameters with or without values
{{param}} {{{title|alt}}} To display parameters as used in code (i.e. with triple braces), especially to indicate relationships between them. May be combined with {{para}} above
{{tjp}} |selfref=yes To display template parameters with colors (as they would appear in the {{tj}} and {{tji}} templates)
{{param value}} ··2·blanks·fore·and·aft·· To display parameter values lightly bordered; replaces <code>...</code>, especially when value contains embedded or leading/trailing blanks; visualized here with middot (·) but can use ␠, ▯, or any character.
{{tlx}} etc. {{Template|1|2|...|10}} To display a template call (with or without parameters and values) as code
{{tji}} {{hatnote|Hello|selfref=yes|category=no}} To showcase with colors in horizontal format the syntax of any template, while providing an easy way to display placeholder texts using colons as separators
{{tag}} "The <img>...</img> tags ..." To render HTML elements ("tags") in prose
{{code}}/{{codett}} "Ensure the alt= parameter ..." To indicate text is source code. To nest other templates within {{code}}, use <code>...</code>. {{codett}} differs only in styling: someMethod becomes someMethod
{{PreCode}} "FORTH has keyword ?BRANCH." Like {{code}}, but prevents line breaks inside the code. Only for very short code parts.
{{subst:codenowiki}} {{small|small text example}} To wrap example code in <code><nowiki>...</nowiki></code>
{{subst:kbdnowiki}} {{large|large text example}} To wrap example code in <kbd><nowiki>...</nowiki></kbd>
{{syntaxhighlight}}     [this is a block template] ( or {{sxhl}} )  Wrapper for <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>, but will wrap overflowing text
{{deprecated code}} "Do not use <blink>." ( or {{dc}} )  To indicate deprecated source code in template documentation, articles on HTML specs, etc. The {{dc2}} variant uses strike-through (<blink>) while {{dcr}} uses red (<blink>).
{{pre}}     [this is a block template] For larger blocks of source code and other pre-formatted text
{{tj}}     [this is a block template] To showcase with colors and multiple lines (vertical format) the syntax of any template, while providing an easy way to display placeholder texts using colons as separators
{{quote}}     [this is a block template] For block quotations (only – never for non-quotations)
{{block indent}}     [this is a block template] For indented blocks of material; visually identical to {{quote}} but without quote markup
{{kbd}} user input To indicate user input
{{key press}} Ctrl+x To indicate specific-keystroke input, including combinations
{{key top}} Left shift Similar; includes more symbols, but does not directly support combinations
{{button}} Don't save To indicate a button in a user interface
{{samp}} example output To indicate sample or example output