diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/dialect.js b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/dialect.js
index 34ab5b5f0..d5d785e2a 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/dialect.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/dialect.js
@@ -181,6 +181,8 @@ function hoistCodeBlocksAndSpans(text) {
   // replace all "\`" with a single character
   text = hideBackslashEscapedCharacters(text);
 
+  // /!\ the order is important /!\
+
   // <pre>...</pre> code blocks
   text = text.replace(/(^\n*|\n\n)<pre>([\s\S]*?)<\/pre>/ig, function(_, before, content) {
     var hash = md5(content);
@@ -188,6 +190,13 @@ function hoistCodeBlocksAndSpans(text) {
     return before + "<pre>" + hash + "</pre>";
   });
 
+  // fenced code blocks (AKA GitHub code blocks)
+  text = text.replace(/(^\n*|\n\n)```([a-z0-9\-]*)\n([\s\S]*?)\n```/g, function(_, before, language, content) {
+    var hash = md5(content);
+    hoisted[hash] = escape(showBackslashEscapedCharacters(content.trim()));
+    return before + "```" + language + "\n" + hash + "\n```";
+  });
+
   // markdown code blocks
   text = text.replace(/(^\n*|\n\n)((?:(?:[ ]{4}|\t).*\n*)+)/g, function(match, before, content, index) {
     // make sure we aren't in a list
@@ -206,13 +215,6 @@ function hoistCodeBlocksAndSpans(text) {
     return before + "    " + hash + "\n";
   });
 
-  // fenced code blocks (AKA GitHub code blocks)
-  text = text.replace(/(^\n*|\n\n)```([a-z0-9\-]*)\n([\s\S]*?)\n```/g, function(_, before, language, content) {
-    var hash = md5(content);
-    hoisted[hash] = escape(showBackslashEscapedCharacters(content.trim()));
-    return before + "```" + language + "\n" + hash + "\n```";
-  });
-
   // code spans (double & single `)
   ["``", "`"].forEach(function(delimiter) {
     var regexp = new RegExp("(^|[^`])" + delimiter + "([^`\\n]+?)" + delimiter + "([^`]|$)", "g");