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Posted by travis spade
travis spade
9,816 Points

Why don't 3 backticks after a code example generate a code block?

I tried answering a question on the forum, but the code doesn't get formatted with mark down. I added three backticks before and after the code, but it just showed up a plain text.

For example, I wrote something like:

var myNum = 5;

It didn't get converted. I also tried starting it with

and

but those didn't work eiter.

travis spade
travis spade
9,816 Points

You can see my answer that is not formatted properly at https://teamtreehouse.com/community/how-can-i-pass-a-variable-outside-of-a-function

travis spade
travis spade
9,816 Points

Also it looks like the three backticks in my question above are missing since they are getting converted. I'm not why it's sort of working in my question but not in my answer on another thread.

2 Answers

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

I just added three backticks to the post in the link you posted - that now looks OK to me. Click on the 'edit' option to see what I added to your post. Or this one. 

var num = 8;
var name = "steve"

I hope that helps!

Steve.

travis spade
travis spade
9,816 Points

It looks like I needed to an additional carriage return after the colon but before the three backticks. Thanks!

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Yes, I think it needs a new line prior to the backticks for it to work properly.

Chyno Deluxe
Chyno Deluxe
16,936 Points
Chyno Deluxe
Chyno Deluxe
16,936 Points

I've edited your post to the proper way to display code in a post. To answer your question. the code blocks must be separated by at least a single line in order to be converted.

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