Template:Quote - MediaWiki

{{Quote}} adds a block quotation to a page.

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

Unnamed (positional) parameters

{{quote|phrase|person|source}} This markup will fail if any parameter contains an equals sign (=).

Numbered (positional) parameters

{{quote|1=phrase|2=person|3=source}}

Named parameters

{{quote|text=phrase|sign=person|source=source}}

Wikitext

{{Quote|text=Cry "Havoc" and let slip the dogs of war.|sign=William Shakespeare|source=''Julius Caesar'', act III, scene I}}

Result

Cry "Havoc" and let slip the dogs of war.

—William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, act III, scene I

If you do not provide quoted 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. (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.

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

<blockquote>
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
</blockquote>

To resolve this, use the ‎<poem> tag inside ‎<blockquote>:

<blockquote><poem>
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
</poem></blockquote>

Similar templates comparison:

• {{Quote }} – quote without border, page-wide, similar to ‎<blockquote> with attribution parameters
• {{Quotation }} – quote without border, page-wide, attribution parameters, slightly different line-spacing
• {{Cquote }} – pull-quote between graphic quotation marks, page-wide
• {{Talk quotation }} – talk-page inline quotation
• {{Talk quote block }} – talk-page block quotation