nano.`|At the command prompt, type `nano`.|
## Escaping Backticks
If the word or phrase you want to denote as code includes one or more backticks, you can escape it by enclosing the word or phrase in double backticks (``).
| Markdown | HTML | Output |
|---------------------------------------------------------------|------|--------|
|````Use `code` in your Markdown file.````|``Use `code` in your Markdown file.``|``Use `code` in your Markdown file.``|
## Code Blocks
To create code blocks, indent every line of the block by at least four spaces or one tab.
```text
This is some text
``` The rendered output looks like this:This is some text
> Note: To create code blocks without indenting lines, use [fenced code blocks](../extended/fenced-code-blocks.md).