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Why do quotation boxes split themselves?

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This snag doesn't happen on Stack Exchange. Each time I use >, the quotation box severs itself. How can I combine the quotation boxes? I screenshot https://math.codidact.com/posts/282889.

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Connect them with >

>first paragraph
>
>second paragraph

first paragraph

second paragraph

If you split them, the quotations will be split

>first quotation

>second quotation

first quotation

second quotation

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As it should be (2 comments)
As it should be
Canina‭ wrote over 2 years ago

Really, this is as it should be, in my opinion. Semantically, the two quote blocks in your second example represent two distinct quotes; that they are adjacent in the content is a separate issue. If you need a blockquote to include multiple paragraphs, the proper way to do that in any medium is to also quote the paragraph break. Hence the extra > to indicate an unbroken block quote is semantically appropriate.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 2 years ago · edited over 2 years ago

This is how CommonMark does it, yes. You'll see the same behavior on GitHub. Coming from SE I had to get used to it too, but it's just a difference in markdown implementations.