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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Now, let's attach it to your timestamps on DOM ready:
      jQuery("abbr.timeago").timeago();
    });
 </pre>
-```html
+```
 
 This will turn all abbr elements with a class of timeago and an ISO 8601 timestamp in the title: