# Can't mix Markdown and BBCode in quotes

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mix-markdown-and-bbcode-in-quotes/61994
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** markdown-it-review
**Created:** [May 2, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mix-markdown-and-bbcode-in-quotes/61994 "2017-05-02T20:24:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 1

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### Author: ![elijah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elijah/32/104055_2.png) [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mix-markdown-and-bbcode-in-quotes/61994/1 "2017-05-02T20:24:49Z")

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```plaintext
[quote]
This is some exciting text. Yeah, man, text goes here.

     This is an indented bit of text.

This is more text.
[/quote]

```

> [@](#):
>
> This is some exciting text. Yeah, man, text goes here.
> 
> ```
> This is an indented bit of text.
> 
> ```
> 
> This is more text.

What happened to my “This is more text.”?

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mix-markdown-and-bbcode-in-quotes/61994/2 "2017-05-02T22:10:05Z")

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Ummm you can’t mix and match format styles within. Try putting `[quote]` inside `[quote]` instead.

Oh wait, I see why this was a bug. Yeah it shouldn’t _remove_ text, that’s true.

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### Author: ![elijah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elijah/32/104055_2.png) [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mix-markdown-and-bbcode-in-quotes/61994/3 "2017-05-02T22:30:39Z")

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The text that lead me to discover this was preformatted ASCII, with a prose-poetry-prose structure. Any use of markdown was accidental, not deliberate.

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### Author: ![SidV](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sidv/32/119460_2.png) [@SidV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SidV)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2017, 11:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mix-markdown-and-bbcode-in-quotes/61994/4 "2017-05-04T11:52:16Z")

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Why it’s necessary mix between bbcode and markdown?

Use:

```
>This is some exciting text. Yeah, man, text goes here.
>
     This is an indented bit of text.
>
>
This is more text.

```

> This is some exciting text. Yeah, man, text goes here.

```
 This is an indented bit of text.

```

> 

This is more text.

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### Author: ![elijah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elijah/32/104055_2.png) [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mix-markdown-and-bbcode-in-quotes/61994/5 "2017-05-04T20:06:40Z")

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See my post above yours.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mix-markdown-and-bbcode-in-quotes/61994/6 "2017-06-26T13:27:08Z")

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> [@](#):
>
> This is some exciting text. Yeah, man, text goes here.
> 
> ```
> This is an indented bit of text.
> 
> ```
> 
> This is more text.

This now works. Yay.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mix-markdown-and-bbcode-in-quotes/61994/7 "2017-06-26T13:27:13Z")

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