# Line break error when using code formatting

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 12, 2023, 9:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-break-error-when-using-code-formatting/268015 "2023-06-12T09:12:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 9:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/line-break-error-when-using-code-formatting/268015/2 "2023-06-12T09:28:02Z")

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Hello and welcome @Rory_D 🙂

The backticks are for preformatted text, so will display whatever is inside them with no extra formatting.

You can create a codeblock version that spans multiple lines using triple backticks instead:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/3/8/e38afcea2a02ad7bbf047656913acefdc51bb8e7.png)

```plaintext
Create a paperback book cover in a 1970s Japanese style. 

It should be sci-fi and slightly otherworldly.

```

Though you may be looking for a blockquote style instead?

> Create a paperback book cover in a 1970s Japanese style. It should be sci-fi and slightly otherworldly.

You can achieve that by highlighting the portion of text you want and using the quotemark button in your composer formatting bar, or by manually adding a `>` to the start of each new line you want to include in the quote block:

![blockquote button](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/f/f/9ff04f2c0d3a97be299c72854de7f7998f068e96.png)

```plaintext
> Create a paperback book cover in a 1970s Japanese style. It should be sci-fi and slightly otherworldly.

```

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