Cèṭa'an:Blockquote/doc

For linking a subject to a collection of quotes on Wikiquote, see Template:Wikiquote.

Usage

{{Blockquote}} adds a block quotation to an article page.

This is easier to type and is more wiki-like than the equivalent HTML <blockquote>...</blockquote> tags, and has additional pre-formatted attribution parameters for author and source (though these are not usually used in articles; see § Reference citations, below).

Note: Block quotes do Cèṭa'an:Em normally contain quotation marks (see ).

Examples

Basic use:

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With attribution displayed:

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With more attribution:

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Examples with "multiline":

Especially useful for translated quotes; see notes about this parameter.

• with "multiline" Cèṭa'an:Tick

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An ample example: Cèṭa'an:Markupv

Parameters

Parameter list

{{Blockquote
| text      =
| author    =
| title     =
| source    =
| character =
| multiline =
| class     =
| style     =
}}

See also section #TemplateData.

Quoted text

|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, otherwise, any inclusion of a non-escaped "=" character (e.g., in a URL in a source citation) will break the template.

Displayed attribution

These parameters are for Cèṭa'an:Em attribution information below the quote; this should not be confused with citing a source Cèṭa'an:Crossreference. 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 <ref>...</ref> tag.

Cèṭa'an:Para a.k.a. Cèṭa'an:Para – optional author/speaker attribution information that will appear below the quotation, and preceded with an attribution dash.

Cèṭa'an:Para a.k.a. Cèṭa'an:Para – optional title of the work the quote appears in, to display below the quotation. This parameter immediately follows the output of Cèṭa'an:Para (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 Cèṭa'an:Crossreference. Additional citation information can be provided in a fourth parameter, Cèṭa'an:Para, below, which will appear after the title.

Cèṭa'an:Para a.k.a. Cèṭa'an:Para – optionally used for additional source information to display, after Cèṭa'an:Para, like so: Cèṭa'an:Code; a comma will be auto-generated between the two parameters. If Cèṭa'an:Para is used without Cèṭa'an:Para, it simply acts as Cèṭa'an:Para. (This parameter was added primarily to ease conversion from misuse of the pull quote template Cèṭa'an:Tlx for block quotation, but it may aid in cleaner meta-data implementation later.)

Cèṭa'an:Para a.k.a. Cèṭa'an:Para or Cèṭa'an:Para – to attribute fictional speech to a fictional character, Cèṭa'an:Em 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 "[[[:Cèṭa'an:Var]]], 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 Cèṭa'an:Para parameter instead of Cèṭa'an:Para.

Technically, all citation information can be given in a single parameter, as in: Cèṭa'an:Code 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

• Cèṭa'an:AnchorCèṭa'an:Para – keep forced linebreaks in output.Cèṭa'an:PbNotes:
  • Will only be applied if at least one of these other parameters or its aliases is not empty (including implicit, unnamed parameters):Cèṭa'an:PbCèṭa'an:Para, Cèṭa'an:Para, Cèṭa'an:Para, or Cèṭa'an:Para.
  • 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).
• Cèṭa'an:Para – allows specifying additional CSS styles (Cèṭa'an:Em classes) to apply to the Cèṭa'an:Code element. Cèṭa'an:Crossreference
• Cèṭa'an:Para – allows specifying additional HTML classes to apply to the same element.

Reference citations

Cèṭa'an:Anchor A reference citation can be placed before the quote, after the quote, or in the Cèṭa'an:Para parameter: Cèṭa'an:Bulleted list

Please do not place the citation in a Cèṭa'an:Para or Cèṭa'an:Para parameter by itself, as it will produce a nonsensical attribution line that looks like this: Cèṭa'an:PbCèṭa'an:In5— Cèṭa'an:Dummy referenceCèṭa'an:Pb Please also do not put it just outside the Cèṭa'an:Tlf template, as this will cause a: Cèṭa'an:PbCèṭa'an:In5Cèṭa'an:Dummy referenceCèṭa'an:Pbon a line by itself.

Limitations

Cèṭa'an:Anchor 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 Cèṭa'an:Strong 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 Cèṭa'an:Tlx and friends.

Next to right-floated boxes

Cèṭa'an:As of the text of a block quotation may rarely overflow (in Firefox or other Gecko browsers) a right-floated item (e.g. a Cèṭa'an:Tlx 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 Cèṭa'an:VarxCèṭa'an:Varpx sizing or Cèṭa'an:Para from a right-floated image above a wider right-floated object that is being overflowed by quotation text; or
2. using Cèṭa'an:Para 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 Cèṭa'an:Em 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 Cèṭa'an:Para 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:
Cèṭa'an:In5text here Cèṭa'an:Tlf More text here
spans a blank line, unless a Cèṭa'an:Tlf is ended with a line break, then the next blank line might be ignored and two paragraphs joined.

The Cèṭa'an:Code element and any templates that use it do not honor newlines: Cèṭa'an:Markup

An easy solution is to use the Cèṭa'an:Tl template instead of Cèṭa'an:Tag. This is effectively the same as using the Cèṭa'an:Xtag tag inside Cèṭa'an:Code, which converts line breaks to Cèṭa'an:Code tags: Cèṭa'an:Markup

To markup actual paragraphs within block quotations, entire blank lines can be used between them, which will convert to Cèṭa'an:Code tags:

Cèṭa'an:Markup

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 Cèṭa'an:Tl, which is a replacement for Cèṭa'an:Xtag 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 (#), will generate errors and incorrectly display anything after a newline character. Cèṭa'an:Markup

Cèṭa'an:Markup

Cèṭa'an:Markup

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Nested quotations

The Cèṭa'an:Code 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 Cèṭa'an:Para on any inner Cèṭa'an:Tlf templates.

Technical issues with block templates

Cèṭa'an:Block bug documentation

TemplateData

Cèṭa'an:TemplateData header

Adds a block quotation.

Parameter templat

Parameter		Keterangan	Jenis	Status
text	text 1 quote	The text to quote Contoh Cry "Havoc" and let slip the dogs of war.	Isi	wajib diisi
author	author 2 cite sign	The writer of the source Contoh William Shakespeare	Isi	disarankan
title	title 3	The work being quoted from Contoh Julius Caesar	Isi	disarankan
source	source 4	A source for the quote Contoh act III, scene I	Isi	disarankan
character	character 5 char	The speaker within the work who is being quoted Contoh Mark Antony	Isi	opsional
multiline	multiline	Keeps forced linebreaks in output Contoh true	Kata	opsional
style	style	Additional CSS styles (not classes) to apply Contoh font-size:inherit;	Kata	opsional
class	class	Additional HTML classes to apply Contoh pullquote	Kata	opsional

Tracking categories

• Cèṭa'an:Category link with count
• Cèṭa'an:Category link with count

See also

Cèṭa'an:Quotation templates Cèṭa'an:Semantic markup templates