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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>
The {{tag|blockquote|o}} element and any templates that use it do not honor newlines:
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}}.
{{markup

|<nowiki><blockquote>
{{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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The intuitive choice:

<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />
Line 2 <br />
Line 3 <br />
Line 4}}</code></blockquote>

results in the mangled:

{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1
Line 2
Line 2
Line 3
Line 3
Line 4}}
Line 4
</blockquote></nowiki>

|<blockquote>
Blank lines seem to work at first:
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<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />
<br />
Line 2 <br />
<br />
Line 3 <br />
<br />
Line 4}}</code></blockquote>

though with quite tall spacing between the content blocks (lines, in our test cases):

{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1

Line 2
Line 2

Line 3
Line 3
Line 4
</blockquote>
}}


To resolve this, use the {{xtag|poem}} tag inside {{tag|blockquote|o}}:
Line 4}}
{{markup

|<nowiki><blockquote><poem>
Yet this markup fails when the indent wikimarkup ":" is used:
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:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1

Line 2
Line 2

Line 3
Line 3
Line 4

</poem></blockquote></nowiki>
Line 4}}
|<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 />
Line 2 &lt;br/><br />
Line 4
</poem></blockquote>
Line 3 &lt;br/><br />
}}<noinclude>
Line 4}}</code></blockquote>

results in odd spacing, with the middle blocks too close together:

{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />
Line 2 <br />
Line 3 <br />
Line 4}}

Meanwhile this version seems OK at first:

<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|&lt;p>Line 1&lt;/p><br />
&lt;p>Line 2&lt;/p><br />
&lt;p>Line 3&lt;/p><br />
&lt;p>Line 4&lt;/p>}}</code></blockquote>

{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|<p>Line 1</p>
<p>Line 2</p>
<p>Line 3</p>
<p>Line 4</p>}}

but again can't be indented in by use of the indent wikimarkup ":"

:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|<p>Line 1</p>
<p>Line 2</p>
<p>Line 3</p>
<p>Line 4</p>}}

{{collapse bottom}}

{{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):

:{{tnull|<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 &lt;br/>Line 2 &lt;br/>Line 3 &lt;br/>Line 4.}}

which, while hard to read, especially for long content, results in the expected:

{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />Line 2 <br />Line 3 <br />Line 4.}}

And it {{em|does}} work with the indent wikimarkup ":", unlike the failed test cases hereinbefore:

:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />Line 2 <br />Line 3 <br />Line 4.}}

Happily, there is a [[HTML]] comment workaround for readability that lets you do whatever you want:

<blockquote><code><nowiki>
{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|1=&lt;!--<br />
-->Line 1 &lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
-->Line 2 &lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
-->Line 3 &lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
-->Line 4.}}
</code></blockquote>

or even:

<blockquote><code><nowiki>
{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|1=&lt;!--<br />
<br />
-->Line 1 &lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
<br />
-->Line 2 &lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
<br />
-->Line 3 &lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
<br />
-->Line 4.}}
</code></blockquote>

which results in the expected:

{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|1=<!--

-->Line 1 <br /><!--

-->Line 2 <br /><!--

-->Line 3 <br /><!--

-->Line 4.}}

They {{em|are}} citable:

:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|1=<!--
-->Line 1 <br /><!--
-->Line 2 <br /><!--
-->Line 3 <br /><!--
-->Line 4.}}<noinclude>


{{Documentation}}
{{Documentation}}

Revision as of 17:43, 26 April 2013

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

Markup Renders as 
<blockquote>
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
</blockquote>

Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4

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

Markup Renders as 
<blockquote><poem>
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
</poem></blockquote>

<poem>

Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4

</poem>


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