Template:Blockquote paragraphs

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Due to the utterly intractable MediaWiki bug reported at Template:Bugzilla, block quoting cannot handle freeform linebreaking for paragraphs and poems and the like. The only solution for this is to use unbroken markup with <p>...</p> or <br /> elements:

{{Blockquote paragraphs|Line 1<br/>Line 2<br/>Line 3<br/>Line 4.}}

Which results in:

Due to the utterly intractable MediaWiki bug reported at Template:Bugzilla, block quoting cannot handle freeform linebreaking for paragraphs and poems and the like. The only solution for this is to use unbroken markup with <p>...</p> or <br /> elements:
{{Blockquote paragraphs|Line 1<br/>Line 2<br/>Line 3<br/>Line 4.}}

Which results in:

Template loop detected: Template:Blockquote paragraphs

However there is an HTML-comment workaround for readability that lets you do whatever you want, and is even indentable with *, : and # markup:

{{Blockquote paragraphs|1=<!--

-->Line 1<br/><!--
-->Line 2<br/><!--
-->Line 3<br/><!--
-->Line 4.}}

Or even:

{{Blockquote paragraphs|1=<!--


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

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

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

-->Line 4.}}

Result of either:

Template loop detected: Template:Blockquote paragraphs


However there is an HTML-comment workaround for readability that lets you do whatever you want, and is even indentable with *, : and # markup:

{{Blockquote paragraphs|1=<!--

-->Line 1<br/><!--
-->Line 2<br/><!--
-->Line 3<br/><!--
-->Line 4.}}

Or even:

{{Blockquote paragraphs|1=<!--


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

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

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

-->Line 4.}}

Result of either:

Due to the utterly intractable MediaWiki bug reported at Template:Bugzilla, block quoting cannot handle freeform linebreaking for paragraphs and poems and the like. The only solution for this is to use unbroken markup with <p>...</p> or <br /> elements:

{{Blockquote paragraphs|Line 1<br/>Line 2<br/>Line 3<br/>Line 4.}}

Which results in:

Template loop detected: Template:Blockquote paragraphs

However there is an HTML-comment workaround for readability that lets you do whatever you want, and is even indentable with *, : and # markup:

{{Blockquote paragraphs|1=<!--

-->Line 1<br/><!--
-->Line 2<br/><!--
-->Line 3<br/><!--
-->Line 4.}}

Or even:

{{Blockquote paragraphs|1=<!--


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

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

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

-->Line 4.}}

Result of either:

Template loop detected: Template:Blockquote paragraphs