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<div style="float: right; padding: 0 1em;">{{navbar|Blockquote paragraphs|plain=y}}</div>
 
<div style="float: right; padding: 0 1em;">{{navbar|Blockquote paragraphs|plain=y}}</div>
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Due to the utterly intractable [[MediaWiki]] bug reported at {{bugzilla|6200}}, and still unfixed {{as of|February 2012|lc=y}}, block quoting on Wikipedia, with or without a template, cannot handle freeform linebreaking for paragraphs and poems and the like, unless formatted one very specific (and annoying) way. It's not a problem of blockquote templates, but all uses of {{tag|blockquote|open}}.
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The {{tag|blockquote|o}} element and any templates that use it do not honor newlines:
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{{markup
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{{collapse top|left=y|title=The problem in action: test cases that seem like they should work but fail|bg=#EEEEEE|bg2=#ECFCF4}}<div class="collapse-workaround">
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|<nowiki><blockquote>
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The intuitive choice:
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<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />
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Line 2 <br />
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Line 3 <br />
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Line 4}}</code></blockquote>
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results in the mangled:
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{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1
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Line 4}}
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Line 4
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</blockquote></nowiki>
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Blank lines seem to work at first:
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|<blockquote>
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Line 1
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<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />
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<br />
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Line 2 <br />
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<br />
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Line 3 <br />
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<br />
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Line 4}}</code></blockquote>
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though with quite tall spacing between the content blocks (lines, in our test cases):
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{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1
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</blockquote>
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Line 4}}
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To resolve this, use the {{xtag|poem}} tag inside {{tag|blockquote|o}}:
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{{markup
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Yet this markup fails with wiki ":" citation:
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|<nowiki><blockquote><poem>
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:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1
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Line 4}}
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</poem></blockquote></nowiki>
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|<blockquote><poem>
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Just trying to use {{tag|p}} or {{tag|br|single}} markup won't solve all the problems:
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<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 &lt;br/><br />
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Line 2 &lt;br/><br />
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Line 3 &lt;br/><br />
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</poem></blockquote>
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Line 4}}</code></blockquote>
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}}<noinclude>
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results in odd spacing, with the middle blocks too close together:
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{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />
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Line 2 <br />
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Line 4}}
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Meanwhile this version seems OK at first:
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<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|&lt;p>Line 1&lt;/p><br />
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&lt;p>Line 2&lt;/p><br />
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&lt;p>Line 3&lt;/p><br />
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&lt;p>Line 4&lt;/p>}}</code></blockquote>
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{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|<p>Line 1</p>
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<p>Line 2</p>
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<p>Line 3</p>
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<p>Line 4</p>}}
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but again can't be indented in citation:
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:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|<p>Line 1</p>
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<p>Line 2</p>
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<p>Line 4</p>}}
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{{collapse bottom}}
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{{As of|February 2012}}, the {{em|only}} solution for the problem is to use {{em|unbroken markup}} with {{tag|p}} or {{tag|br|single}} elements (or others, like nested blockquotes and lists):
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:{{tnull|<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 &lt;br/>Line 2 &lt;br/>Line 3 &lt;br/>Line 4.}}
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which, while hard to read, especially for long content, results in the expected:
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{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />Line 2 <br />Line 3 <br />Line 4.}}
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And it {{em|does}} work with wikimarkup ":" citation, unlike the failed test cases hereinbefore:
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:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />Line 2 <br />Line 3 <br />Line 4.}}
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Happily, there is a [[HTML]] comment workaround for readability that lets you do whatever you want:
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<blockquote><code><nowiki>
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{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|1=&lt;!--<br />
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-->Line 1 &lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
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-->Line 2 &lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
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-->Line 3 &lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
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<blockquote><code><nowiki>
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{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|1=&lt;!--<br />
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-->Line 1 &lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
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-->Line 2 &lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
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-->Line 4.}}
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which results in the expected:
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{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|1=<!--
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-->Line 4.}}
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They {{em|are}} citable:
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:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|1=<!--
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-->Line 4.}}<noinclude>
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{{Documentation}}
 
{{Documentation}}

Latest revision as of 12:53, 17 October 2014

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The Template:tag element and any templates that use it do not honor newlines: Template:markup

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