# Quote tags turning into code tags

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-tags-turning-into-code-tags/998298>\
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**Created:** [March 1, 2024, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-tags-turning-into-code-tags/998298 "2024-03-01T00:58:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-tags-turning-into-code-tags/998298/3 "2024-03-06T19:04:33Z")

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Does Discourse even employ QA people, @codinghorror ?

This is a trivial bug, with a well over-complicated solution.

How about… just allow multiple spaces at the start of a quote tag? I mean, it takes work and logic to swap out a quote with a code section.

Or just `trim` it. Really. Javascript is not hard, Jeff.

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