# Markdown / bbcode code/quote bug
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-bbcode-code-quote-bug/299047
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [March 12, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-bbcode-code-quote-bug/299047 "2024-03-12T17:53:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-bbcode-code-quote-bug/299047/1 "2024-03-12T17:53:03Z")
I’ve encountered an odd ~~markdown~~ markdown/bbcode bug.
### Have a few lines of code in bbcode/markdown
```plaintext
[code]
line1
line2
[/code]
```
looks like
```plaintext
line1
line2
```
### Quote them:
```plaintext
> [code]
> line1
> line2
> [/code]
```
looks like
> ```plaintext
> line1
> line2
> ```
---
### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-bbcode-code-quote-bug/299047/3 "2024-03-12T19:39:51Z")
… and _should_ look like:
> ```plaintext
> line1
> line2
>
> ```
escaped:
````plaintext
> ```
> line1
> line2
> ```
````
---
### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2024, 8:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-bbcode-code-quote-bug/299047/6 "2024-03-14T08:57:23Z")
Can you tell me what browser / OS you’re using and how you’re quoting these lines?
Here’s how it looks on my end
which gives the correct markdown
````
[quote="Richard - Communiteq, post:1, topic:299047, username:RGJ"]
```
line1
line2
```
[/quote]
````
which renders as
> [@RGJ](#):
>
> ```plaintext
> line1
> line2
>
> ```
---
### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2024, 9:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-bbcode-code-quote-bug/299047/7 "2024-03-14T09:02:05Z")
Oh wait, I think I understand what you mean 🤦♂️
1. Write down the following markdown
```plaintext
[code]
line1
line2
[/code]
```
1. Select the text and click the “Blockquote” button so it prepends a `> ` on each line
```plaintext
> [code]
> line1
> line2
> [/code]
```
Which renders (wrongly) as
> ```plaintext
> line1
> line2
> ```
Instead of
> ```plaintext
> line1
> line2
>
> ```
This is most likely an issue with the way we parse [BBCode Blocks](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/assets/javascripts/discourse-markdown-it/src/features/bbcode-block.js) 🤔
---
### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2024, 9:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-bbcode-code-quote-bug/299047/8 "2024-03-14T09:23:14Z")
Yeah, I already figured it was not a markdown issue per se but probably a bbcode issue.
The problem can be circumvented by using ````` instead of `[code]`, as supermathie implicitly said in the second post.
---
### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-bbcode-code-quote-bug/299047/9 "2024-03-14T18:21:10Z")
Will be fixed by
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/26182](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/26182)
---
### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-bbcode-code-quote-bug/299047/11 "2024-03-15T18:21:47Z")
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