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Using blockquotes

Using blockquotes - Markdown Tutorial

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Using blockquotes

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- [Instructor] Another common way to mark up documents is to use something called a blockquote. These are designed for when you want to quote an individual or set some text apart from the rest of the document, and Markdown makes it super simple. All you have to do is add a greater than sign with a space at the beginning of a line, and you'll see that it renders usually indented, sometimes with a separate style. Now, if you want another paragraph to also be part of that blockquote, all you have to do is add another greater than sign here and again, it also indents. Now, optionally, you can add another one here in the carriage return or just bring these lines together and that will make 'em all part of the same paragraph. But sometimes you do want that extra line. You don't need to put in that extra greater than sign. You can also indent a blockquote inside another blockquote by using double greater than signs, and you can see that this blockquote is indented inside this other…

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