Template talk:Quote box

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)
 * Yes. Here's one:
 * Did you have a more specific question? – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:33, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh. Well, a combination of these two, the table inside a yellow box... Possible?  ——Serial Number 54129  19:33, 11 April 2024 (UTC)


 * 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)
 * Thanks, 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)

Sections headers
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)


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


 * 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)

Looks weird on mobile
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:


 * live quote box
 * blockquote
 * sandbox quote box, with 3 colors

Feedback welcome, Rjjiii  (talk) 01:26, 5 June 2024 (UTC) Added colors to sandbox example, for discussion, 19:01, 10 July 2024 (UTC)


 * I'm testing a bit before pushing anything live and have noticed a backlash when the template's appearance was changed before. I've pinged editors who objected. Some raised the idea that the change should have been discussed somewhere else (maybe Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates & Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style?), so feel free to post notices. My preferences on mobile and full-width only are:
 * Use a style very similar to the mobile blockquote style
 * Use a style very similar to the mobile blockquote style, except with a grey background
 * You can see the two proposed defaults here on mobile. This change would not affect desktop or widths where the template can float, Rjjiii  (talk) 12:22, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * The mobile version seems good to me. GustavoCza (talk • contribs) 14:10, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Assuming I’m understanding it, I certainly prefer the grey background to the white. If consensus is that we shouldn’t have the blue, although it seems to have been the accepted default for a very long time, then I would favour the grey. I very much appreciate the opportunity for discussion. KJP1 (talk) 05:42, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Blue is just to show that custom background colors will be unaffected by changes to the default. Rjjiii (ii) (talk) 12:47, 12 July 2024 (UTC)