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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> |
| − | 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}}.
| + | The {{tag|blockquote|o}} element and any templates that use it do not honor newlines: |
| − | | + | {{markup |
| − | {{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">
| + | |<nowiki><blockquote> |
| − | The intuitive choice:
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| − | <blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />
| + | Line 3 |
| − | Line 2 <br /> | + | Line 4 |
| − | Line 3 <br /> | + | </blockquote></nowiki> |
| − | Line 4}}</code></blockquote> | + | |<blockquote> |
| − | | + | Line 1 |
| − | results in the mangled:
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| − | {{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1
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| | Line 2 | | Line 2 |
| | Line 3 | | Line 3 |
| − | Line 4}} | + | Line 4 |
| − | | + | </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 />
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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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| | + | To resolve this, use the {{xtag|poem}} tag inside {{tag|blockquote|o}}: |
| | + | {{markup |
| | + | |<nowiki><blockquote><poem> |
| | + | Line 1 |
| | Line 2 | | Line 2 |
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| | Line 3 | | Line 3 |
| − | | + | Line 4 |
| − | Line 4}} | + | </poem></blockquote></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
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| | Line 2 | | Line 2 |
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| | Line 3 | | Line 3 |
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| − | Line 4}}
| + | </poem></blockquote> |
| − | | + | }}<noinclude> |
| − | 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 <br/><br />
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| − | Line 2 <br/><br />
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| − | Line 3 <br/><br />
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| − | Line 4}}</code></blockquote>
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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 3 <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>|<p>Line 1</p><br />
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| − | <p>Line 2</p><br />
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| − | <p>Line 3</p><br />
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| − | <p>Line 4</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 by use of the indent wikimarkup ":"
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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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| − | {{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 <br/>Line 2 <br/>Line 3 <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 the indent wikimarkup ":", 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=<!--<br />
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| − | -->Line 1 <br/><!--<br />
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| − | -->Line 2 <br/><!--<br />
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| − | -->Line 3 <br/><!--<br />
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| − | -->Line 4.}}
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| − | </code></blockquote>
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| − | or even:
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| − | <blockquote><code><nowiki>
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| − | {{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|1=<!--<br />
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| − | <br />
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| − | -->Line 1 <br/><!--<br />
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| − | <br />
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| − | -->Line 2 <br/><!--<br />
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| − | <br />
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| − | -->Line 3 <br/><!--<br />
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| − | <br />
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| − | -->Line 4.}}
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| − | </code></blockquote>
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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 1 <br /><!--
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| − | -->Line 2 <br /><!--
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| − | -->Line 3 <br /><!--
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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 1 <br /><!--
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| − | -->Line 2 <br /><!--
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| − | -->Line 3 <br /><!--
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| − | -->Line 4.}}<noinclude>
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