# Quote context impacts functionality of quote

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-context-impacts-functionality-of-quote/138005>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 7, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-context-impacts-functionality-of-quote/138005 "2020-01-07T20:01:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 9:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-context-impacts-functionality-of-quote/138005/13 "2020-03-15T09:35:20Z")

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> [@Cardinalflyer](#):
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> But unlike HTML, in this system is matters where the linefeeds happen to fall.

Right. The basic nature of markdown is that a newline (or two newlines) is the same as paragraph tag. Because of this, some tags require newlines before or after them to be properly interpreted. It’s part of the spec, I believe.

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