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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [November 7, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-details-require-an-empty-line-before-markdown-blocks/335019 "2024-11-07T18:52:01Z")\
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**Author:**  [@mbauman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-details-require-an-empty-line-before-markdown-blocks/335019/1 "2024-11-07T18:52:01Z")
It’d be nice if Markdown’s “block” syntaxes could work inside `` without requiring an empty line. I frequently run into this with code segments. For example, this fairly straight-forward syntax is doesn’t render as I’d expect:
````md
```
# not code
```
````
> ****
>
> ``` # not code ```
While I most commonly hit this with code blocks (given that we run a programming language forum), it’s true of other markdown “block” syntaxes:
> **For example, headers**
>
> # are not headers
>
> This is the code for this block:
>
> ````md
> For example, headers
> # are not headers
>
> This is the code for this block:
> ```md
> (stack overflow)
> ```
>