# Pasting from Docusaurus breaks code formatting blocks
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-from-docusaurus-breaks-code-formatting-blocks/412919
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [September 21, 2026, 1:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-from-docusaurus-breaks-code-formatting-blocks/412919 "2026-09-21T13:49:20Z")
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### Author:  [@msohm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/msohm)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2026, 1:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-from-docusaurus-breaks-code-formatting-blocks/412919/1 "2026-09-21T13:49:20Z")
The editor breaks the format when pasting text that has code formatting blocks from web sites created with [Docusaurus](https://docusaurus.io/). Instead of the entire block being encapsulated by ````` , there is a closing ```` ` after the first line and each other line in the code block is prefixed and appended with ` ``. It also puts an empty line in between in line in the code block.
Here’s an example of how a paste looks like of this section: [Create a doc | Docusaurus](https://docusaurus.io/docs/create-doc#document-id) Note how the code blocks are now individual lines instead of a continuous code block. This occurs with any site I’ve tested that’s built with Docusaurus, not just their own site.
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Every document has a unique `id`. By default, a document `id` is the name of the document (without the extension) relative to the root docs directory.
For example, the ID of `greeting.md` is `greeting`, and the ID of `guide/hello.md` is `guide/hello`.
```plaintext
website # Root directory of your site
```
`└── docs`
` ├── greeting.md`
` └── guide`
` └── hello.md`
However, the **last part** of the `id` can be defined by the user in the front matter. For example, if `guide/hello.md`’s content is defined as below, its final `id` is `guide/part1`.
```plaintext
---
```
`id: part1`
`---`
`Lorem ipsum`
The ID is used to refer to a document when hand-writing sidebars, or when using docs-related layout components or hooks.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2026, 2:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-from-docusaurus-breaks-code-formatting-blocks/412919/2 "2026-09-21T14:32:22Z")
this happens with _raw_ pastes from GitHub Markdown too FYI
Even in Markdown mode …
(if I paste these into Notepad there are no backticks - so feels like Discourse is adding them)