Template:Cquote/doc
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Usage[edit]
Centered quote – for quotes, this template provides a centred, borderless quote, with scalable decorative quotation marks, and optional attribution of the source of the quote. It can be used with or without the names of the parameters.
Syntax[edit]
{{Cquote|quote=text of the quotation|author=person quoted|source=source of the quotation}}
Parameters[edit]
- Parameter
1,quote - text of the quote; use
<p>...</p>around second or subsequent paragraphs. - Required
- Note! if the quote text contains a
=(equals sign), then the template must be called with a named parameter for the content.
For example:{{Cquote|quote=quote text=more quoted text}}. (More info: (at En-Wp) Help:Template#Usage hints and workarounds). author- Name of the person that wrote or spoke the text being quoted, can include wiki syntax.
source- Source of the quote (publication title, speech, etc.), can include wiki syntax. Can be used without
|author=(e.g. for a scripture, law, or other source without an author per se) bgcolor- The colour of the background, this parameter is disabled in article space.
float- Defaults to centre, but can also be right or left; usually used with
|width=30%or so (otherwise for quotes longer than one line on the rendered page, the float will have no useful effect). This parameter is disabled in article space. width- For example
|width=30%, this parameter is disabled in article space. qcolor- Colour of quote-marks, for example
|qcolor=#FF0000for a red colour (only for use in community portal, and personal pages; do not use in articles, guidelines, etc.). This parameter is disabled in article space. rtl- Set to any non-blank value for quotes that should be rendered from right to left (e.g., Arabic); adds the necessary 'dir' attribute, and reverses the quotes. This parameter is disabled in article space.
quotealign- Set to 'center' to centre-align the quote text; this parameter is disabled in article space.
Deprecated:
wide- In older versions of the template, when this was set to 'yes', the quote expanded to the entire width of the page, which was useful for long quotes; however, it clashed with other floating objects, such as infoboxes, and the template now auto expands and line wraps as needed (full page, or within a
|width=constraint). This parameter is disabled in article space.
Simple example[edit]
{{Cquote|To be, or not to be ...}}The above code will generate the following:
| To be, or not to be ... |
Sourced example[edit]
This includes a citation, which is then displayed in the 'References' section.
{{Cquote|Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
|author={{Wp|Albert Einstein}}
|source=in a letter to his son<ref>{{Wp|Walter Isaacson}}, ''Einstein: His Life and Universe'' (2007), p. 367.</ref>
}}The above code will generate the following:
| Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. | ||
— Albert Einstein, in a letter to his son[1] | ||
- ↑ Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), p. 367.
Other examples[edit]
{{Cquote|1=F=ma|author={{Wp|Isaac Newton}}}}
(the 1= is necessary as quote text contains an equals sign)
| F=ma | ||
TemplateData[edit]
- TemplateData for Cquote
This template is intended for quotes; usually this is not appropriate for encyclopedia articles. The (En-Wp) Manual of Style guidelines for block quotations recommend formatting block quotations using the {{Wp|Template:Quote}} template or the HTML <blockquote> element.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quote | quote 1 quotetext text content | The quote to be visually repeated | Content | required |
| Author | author personquoted | Name of the person that wrote or spoke the text being quoted
| Content | suggested |
| Source | source publication title quotesource | Source of the quote (publication title, speech, etc.); can include wiki syntax. Can be used without |author= (e.g. for a scripture, law, or other source without an author per se)
| Content | suggested |
| Width | width | The width of the quote
| String | optional |
| Float | float | Position the quote to float on the right or left side of the content
| String | optional |
| Background color | bgcolor | The background color for the quote
| String | optional |
| Quotation mark colour | qcolor | Colour of quotemarks (only for use in [[WikiIndex:Community portal|community portal]], and personal pages; do not use in articles, guidelines, etc.)
| Unknown | optional |
| Full width | wide | In older versions of the template, when this was set to "yes", the quote expanded to the entire width of the page, which was useful for long quotes. However, it clashed with other floating objects, such as infoboxes, and the template now auto expands and line wraps as needed (full page, or within a |width= constraint). | Boolean | deprecated |
| small | small | no description | Unknown | deprecated |
| personquoted | personquoted | no description | Unknown | deprecated |
| publication | publication | no description | Unknown | deprecated |
| title | title | no description | Unknown | deprecated |
| quotesource | quotesource | no description | Unknown | deprecated |
| 2 | 2 | no description | Unknown | optional |
| 3 | 3 | no description | Unknown | deprecated |
| 4 | 4 | no description | Unknown | deprecated |
| 5 | 5 | no description | Unknown | deprecated |
| Direction | rtl | Sets script direction right-to-left (Arabic, Hebrew)
| Unknown | optional |