diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/dialect.js b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/dialect.js
index b54011180ab..e80e5e96710 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/dialect.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/dialect.js
@@ -188,14 +188,6 @@ function hoistCodeBlocksAndSpans(text) {
 
   // /!\ the order is important /!\
 
-  // <pre>...</pre> code blocks
-  text = text.replace(/(\s|^)<pre>([\s\S]*?)<\/pre>/ig, function(_, before, content) {
-    var hash = md5(content);
-    hoisted[hash] = escape(showBackslashEscapedCharacters(removeEmptyLines(content)));
-    return before + "<pre>" + hash + "</pre>";
-  });
-
-
   // fenced code blocks (AKA GitHub code blocks)
   text = text.replace(/(^\n*|\n)```([a-z0-9\-]*)\n([\s\S]*?)\n```/g, function(_, before, language, content) {
     var hash = md5(content);
@@ -219,6 +211,13 @@ function hoistCodeBlocksAndSpans(text) {
     return before + "    " + hash + "\n";
   });
 
+  // <pre>...</pre> code blocks
+  text = text.replace(/(\s|^)<pre>([\s\S]*?)<\/pre>/ig, function(_, before, content) {
+    var hash = md5(content);
+    hoisted[hash] = escape(showBackslashEscapedCharacters(removeEmptyLines(content)));
+    return before + "<pre>" + hash + "</pre>";
+  });
+
   // code spans (double & single `)
   ["``", "`"].forEach(function(delimiter) {
     var regexp = new RegExp("(^|[^`])" + delimiter + "([^`\\n]+?)" + delimiter + "([^`]|$)", "g");