Template:Cquote/doc

Usage

{{Cquote}} (for Centered pull-quote) is a template meant for pull-quotes, the visually distinctive text that is already present in the same article.

Pull-quotes work best when used with short sentences, and at the start or end of a section, as a hint of the section's content.

Syntax

{{cquote|quote text}}
{{cquote|quote text|author=author or speaker}}
{{cquote|quote text|author=author or speaker|source=title of article, speech, book, etc.}}

Parameters

Parameter 1: text of the quote; use <br /> between paragraphs.; Required; Note: if the quote text contains one or more "=" (equal signs), then the template must be called as {{cquote|1=quote text}} (see Help:Template#Hints and workarounds)
Deprecated positional parameter 2: "size", "quotewidth", or "width" can also be used. Desired size of the quotation marks. Currently this value is ignored and the size is always 35px, except for the values 10px, 20px, 30px, 40px, 50px, and 60px retained for historical reasons. This was used to scale the graphical quotation marks up and down to suit larger or smaller quotes.
Deprecated positional parameter 3: "quoteheight" – it was used for desired height of the quotation marks, but is now ignored.
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.
bgcolor: The color of the background.
wide: When set to "yes", the quote expands to the entire width of the page. Useful for small quotes, but may clash with other floating objects, such as infoboxes.

Simple example

{{cquote|quote text}}

“

To be, or not to be.

”

Sourced example

{{cquote
|Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
|author=[[Wikipedia:Albert Einstein|Albert Einstein]]
|source=in a letter to his son<ref>[[Wikipedia:Walter Isaacson|Walter Isaacson]], ''Einstein: His Life and Universe'' (2007), p. 367.</ref>
}}

“	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.

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Other examples

{{cquote|1=F=ma|author=[[Isaac Newton]]}}

(the 1= is necessary as quote text contains an equal sign)

“	F=ma	”
—Isaac Newton

{{cquote|1=Thus:
:<math>E=mc^2</math>|author=[[Wikipedia:Albert Einstein|Albert Einstein]]}}

(quote text contains an equal sign and math syntax)

“	Thus: $E = m c^{2}$	”
—Albert Einstein