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This template is used in system messages, and onapproximately 1,100,000 pages, or roughly 2% of all pages. Changes to it can cause immediate changes to the Wikipedia user interface. To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the template's/sandbox or/testcases subpages, or in your ownuser subpage. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Please discuss changes on thetalk page before implementing them.
{{block indent}} adds a block of indented text to a page.
{{block indent|1=The material to be indented here. May include markup, paragraph breaks, etc.}}
Alternatives that are not recommended
A colon at the start of the line produces a similar indent, but it produces incorrect HTML. SeeMOS:INDENT. (An initial: was intended only for use after;, in constructingdescription lists, but most editors have used it almost everywhere for indenting.)
{{Blockquote}} is for actual quotations only. Using it for block indent is not correctsemantic HTML, and the appearance differs. ({{Blockquote}} produces the HTML<blockquote>...</blockquote> element, which indicates ablock quotation;{{block indent}} produces an HTML<div>...</div> element with padding on the left.)
The default display of{{block indent}} differs from that of{{Blockquote}} in that it does not:
introduce whitespace margins above or below the indented material (just add a blank line above and/or below manually); nor
indent from the right as well as the left (there is an optional parameter for this); nor
affect the font size of its contents; nor
(on mobile) bookend the block with large quotation marks; nor
support plain blank-line paragraph breaks inside it; nor
support attribution parameters (because{{block indent}} isn't for quotations).
{{Blockquote}} and{{block indent}} both support paragraph breaks using<p>...</p> around second and subsequent paragraphs, as well as other HTML markup, and it is always safest to explicitly format with HTML rather than rely on MediaWiki's parser to do the right thing, because the developers could alter its behavior at any time.
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Parameters
|1= a.k.a.|text= The material to be indented.It is always safest to explicitly define this with1=, not as an unnamed parameter, because any occurrence (e.g. in a URL, template, etc.) of the= character will break the template without it.
|left= a.k.a.|em= the value (e.g.0.1 or7) inem units by which to indent the material from the left; defaults to3
|right= the value, also inem, by which to indent the material from the right; defaults to0 (use7 to match the default left indentation)
|style= arbitrary CSS declarations, e.g.font-size: 95%;. This parameter should not normally be needed. Note: It already includesoverflow: hidden; by default, to avoid collision of the div's background with floating elements.
|class= any CSS class names (e.g. as defined atMediaWiki:Common.css), comma-separated if more than one. This parameter should not normally be needed.
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Technical issues with block templates
If the block-formatted content uses anamed parameter (including|1=) and begins with a list (or any other wikimarkup that is dependent upon a specific markup character being at the beginning of a line), becauseMediaWiki behavior is to strip whitespace from named parameters, a<nowiki /> and a new line must exist before the list (or whatever) starts. This no longer affectsunnamed parameters. Compare:
To embed a table in block markup like this, the block template's content parameter must be named or numbered and include the self-closing nowiki – as in|1=<nowiki /> – then every| character in the table markup must be escaped with {{!}}. An alternative is to use explicit HTML<table>,<tr>,<th>, and<td> markup.
See also
{{indent}}, which indents a single line, after a newline, using a mixture of en- and em-sized spaces
{{spaces}}, which indents a single line (or content inline in one) uses non-breaking spaces
{{in5}}, which indents a single line (or content inline in one), skipping up to fifty equal en-sized spaces
To indicate text is a variable name. Use for any variable names except those including "I" (uppercase i) and/or "l" (lowercase L); for these, {{var serif}} should be used to ensure a noticeable distinction
To display parameters as used in code (i.e. with triple braces), especially to indicate relationships between them. May be combined with {{para}} above
To display parameter values lightly bordered; replaces <code>...</code>, especially when value contains embedded or leading/trailing blanks; visualized here withmiddot (·) but can use ␠, ▯, or any character.
To showcase with colors in horizontal format the syntax of any template, while providing an easy way to display placeholder texts using colons as separators
To indicate text is source code. To nest other templates within {{code}}, use<code>...</code>.{{codett}} differs only in styling:someMethod becomessomeMethod
( or{{dc}}) To indicatedeprecated source code in template documentation, articles on HTML specs, etc. The{{dc2}} variant uses strike-through (<blink>) while{{dcr}} uses red (<blink>).
To showcase with colors and multiple lines (vertical format) the syntax of any template, while providing an easy way to display placeholder texts using colons as separators
