Blockquotes

Blockquotes set text visually apart from the surrounding paragraph, a quoted line, a note passed along from someone else, a snippet worth citing. Rather than relying on quotation marks alone, a blockquote indents the text and adds a vertical rule down the left edge, so a reader can tell at a glance where a quote starts and ends without reading a single word of it.

Syntax

Start a line with > to turn it into a blockquote. A blank line with just > keeps a quote going across a paragraph break, while any line that doesn't start with > ends the quote.

> This is a quote.
>
> It can span multiple lines.

Nested blockquotes

Add an extra >for each level of nesting to quote within a quote, useful when you're replying to a quoted passage or attributing a quote inside a larger excerpt.

> Outer quote
>> Inner quote

Formatting inside blockquotes

A blockquote isn't limited to plain text. It supports the same Markdown as the rest of the document, so you can bold or italicize a phrase, link out to a source, or drop in inline code, all without leaving the quote.

> "The best way to predict the future is to **invent** it."
> Read more in [this article](/help/editor/markdown).

Context menu support

In the Zelares editor, right-click a line and choose Paragraph, then Quote to toggle a quote marker on the current line without typing the > character yourself. Running the same action again removes the quote marker.

Related pages

For visually distinct notes and warnings built on top of blockquotes, see Callouts. For a full overview of supported Markdown formatting, see Syntax.