Markdown on Github: how to do italics inside code blocks (triple backticks)

Question

I know on Github with Markdown, a pair of ``` builds a multiple code block. My question is, how I can make words italics inside this code block?

What I want is just italics words inside a code block. Any functionality other than triple backticks ``` is welcome.

Answer 1

To look like this...

<div class="footer">
    &copy; 2004 Foo Corporation
</div>
italic

Build your own codeblock

<pre><code>&lt;div class="footer"&gt; &amp;copy; 2004 Foo Corporation &lt;/div&gt; <i>italic</i></code></pre>