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Quotebox + table?[edit]

Moved from Wikipedia:Help desk § Quotebox / table

Hi all. Is it possible to contain a table within a {{Quote box}}? If not, is it possible to achieve a similar columnic effect? Cheers! ——Serial Number 54129 16:29, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Here's one:

Cell 1 Cell 2

Did you have a more specific question? – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:33, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonesey95: Oh. Well, a combination of these two, the table inside a yellow box... Possible? ——Serial Number 54129 19:33, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

HEADER
Cell 1 Cell 2

HEADER
Lorem ipsum	Lorem ipsum

I modified the table above to put a table in the yellow quote box. It doesn't look pretty to me, but it's technically possible. Are you really quoting a table from some source, though? The above is probably a misuse of this template. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:20, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Jonesey95, that's just the thing, nice one. I know what you mean though, it is a bit untidy. After all this, maybe I should just use the box! ——Serial Number 54129 11:44, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sections headers[edit]

I'm currently trying to use the template at the Acute stress reaction article, but the quote box seems to hide the section header below. Is there a way to fix this? Many thanks in advance NoonIcarus (talk) 09:28, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

NoonIcarus, the hiding of the section header "Acute stress disorder per DSM" has been fixed in Special:Diff/1225743345. Please note, that Template:Quote box is not meant for such long, multi-paragraph quotes. Per documentation: The Manual of Style guidelines for block quotations recommend formatting block quotations using the {{Blockquote}} template.

As for the content of the quote, please see WP:NOFULLTEXT and Wikipedia:Quotations. —⁠andrybak (talk) 12:35, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Andrybak: I understand, thank you very much. I had forgotten about that template and have replaced it. Kind regards, --NoonIcarus (talk) 13:21, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks weird on mobile[edit]

The style used by this template is, I think, meant to resemble the floating media boxes for images and so on. On desktop, it does. On mobile, image captions do not have borders or grey backgrounds, so the quote boxes look weird. I think that the mobile style should be tweaked to resemble image captions or {{blockquote}} for the mobile theme. Check out the example section from Alfred Hitchcock^{(27 May 2024)} below in a mobile web browser to see the live template, the live blockquote template, and an example fix in the sandbox:

Feedback welcome, Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 01:26, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]