# 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: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@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")

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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)

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