Editing Template:Blockquote/doc (section)

=== 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:<br />{{in5}}text here {{tlf|blockquote|this is quoted}} More text here<br />spans a blank line, unless a {{tlf|blockquote|...}} is ended with a line break, then the next blank line might be ignored and two paragraphs joined.

The {{code|lang=html|code=<blockquote>}} element and any templates that use it do not honor newlines:
{{markup
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
<blockquote>
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
</blockquote>
</syntaxhighlight>
|<blockquote>
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
</blockquote>
}}

An easy solution is to use the {{tl|poem quote}} template instead of {{tag|blockquote}}. This is effectively the same as using the {{xtag|poem}} tag inside {{code|lang=html|code=<blockquote>}}, which converts line breaks to {{code|lang=html|code=<br />}} tags:
{{markup
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
<blockquote><poem>
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
</poem></blockquote>
</syntaxhighlight>
|<blockquote><poem>
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
</poem></blockquote>
}}

To markup actual paragraphs within block quotations, entire blank lines can be used between them, which will convert to {{code|lang=html|code=<p>...</p>}} tags:

{{markup
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
<blockquote>
Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3
</blockquote>
</syntaxhighlight>
|<blockquote>
Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3
</blockquote>
}}

Note that it may be necessary to put a line break in the wikitext before <nowiki><blockquote> and after </blockquote></nowiki> 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 {{tl|blockquote}}, which is a replacement for {{xtag|blockquote}} 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.
<!--Please do not "fix" these deliberate errors. -->
{{markup
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
:<blockquote>Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2</blockquote>
</syntaxhighlight>
|
:<blockquote>Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2</blockquote>
}}

{{markup
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
*<blockquote>Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2</blockquote>
</syntaxhighlight>
|
*<blockquote>Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2</blockquote>
}}

{{markup
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
#<blockquote>Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2</blockquote>
</syntaxhighlight>
|
#<blockquote>Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2</blockquote>
}}

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