# SkippedScopes

Learn about how to ignore block-level HTML tags.

```ini
StylesPath = styles

SkippedScopes = script, style, pre

[*.md]
BasedOnStyles = Vale
```

`SkippedScopes` specifies block-level HTML tags to ignore. Any content in these scopes will be ignored.

By default, Vale ignores `script`, `style`, and `pre` tags. For example, considering the following Markdown file:

````markdown
This is a sentence that contains normal text.

```python
# This is a code block.
print("Hello, world!")
```

Another normal sentence.
````

Vale will not raise any alerts for the content within the code block.

See [Markup](/topics/scopes.md) for more information.

[IgnoredClasses](/keys/ignoredclasses.md) [BasedOnStyles](/keys/basedonstyles.md)


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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.vale.sh/keys/skippedscopes.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.