BEGINS NEXT LINE begin
This and successive lines form a regular text paragraph because they are outside the previous HTML block comment, which started and ended on the same line.
The end-of-comment sequence -
-
>
also lies outside the block, therefore it's regular text: including the end-of-block sequence -->
First line inside codeblock.
<!-- This line isn't a comment and will be shown. -->
<!--
So will this line.
-->
Last line inside codeblock.
end ENDS PRIOR LINE
regular text
A block comment inside a paragraph
splits the paragraph in two.