diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 93e5b900..5f39cc84 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
- [pull #743] Add a `strip-syntax` option to the `header-ids` extra that leaves link URLs, image paths, inline HTML tags and emphasis markers out of header ids (#192)
- [pull #747] Fix `link-patterns` extra linking text inside Markdown links and images whose label wraps onto another line
- [pull #759] Fix `fenced-code-blocks` extra not recognizing code blocks whose language name contains `#` or `.`, such as `c#`, `f#` and `vb.net`
+- [pull #760] Fix `fenced-code-blocks` extra ending a code block early at a line inside it that ends with backticks, such as an indented fence in a docstring
## python-markdown2 2.5.5
diff --git a/lib/markdown2.py b/lib/markdown2.py
index 9be0a262..0f11442c 100755
--- a/lib/markdown2.py
+++ b/lib/markdown2.py
@@ -3690,7 +3690,7 @@ class FencedCodeBlocks(Extra):
(?:\n+|\A\n?|(?<=\n))
(^[ \t]*`{3,})\s{0,99}?([\w+\#.-]+)?\s{0,99}?\n # $1 = opening fence (captured for back-referencing), $2 = optional lang
(.*?) # $3 = code block content
- \1[ \t]*\n # closing fence
+ ^[ ]{0,3}\1`*[ \t]*\n # closing fence
''', re.M | re.X | re.S)
def test(self, text: str):
diff --git a/test/tm-cases/fenced_code_blocks_closing_fence.html b/test/tm-cases/fenced_code_blocks_closing_fence.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..37777d01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tm-cases/fenced_code_blocks_closing_fence.html
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+def greet():
+ """Say hello.
+
+ ```
+ greet()
+ ```
+ """
+
+
+Some text between the blocks.
+
+Wrap code in ```
+
+
+closing fence indented by three spaces
+
+
+closing fence longer than the opening one
+
diff --git a/test/tm-cases/fenced_code_blocks_closing_fence.opts b/test/tm-cases/fenced_code_blocks_closing_fence.opts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ba411ac7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tm-cases/fenced_code_blocks_closing_fence.opts
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{"extras": ["fenced-code-blocks"]}
diff --git a/test/tm-cases/fenced_code_blocks_closing_fence.tags b/test/tm-cases/fenced_code_blocks_closing_fence.tags
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..673cfc84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tm-cases/fenced_code_blocks_closing_fence.tags
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+extra fenced-code-blocks
diff --git a/test/tm-cases/fenced_code_blocks_closing_fence.text b/test/tm-cases/fenced_code_blocks_closing_fence.text
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..075f6b67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tm-cases/fenced_code_blocks_closing_fence.text
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+```
+def greet():
+ """Say hello.
+
+ ```
+ greet()
+ ```
+ """
+```
+
+Some *text* between the blocks.
+
+```
+Wrap code in ```
+```
+
+```
+closing fence indented by three spaces
+ ```
+
+```
+closing fence longer than the opening one
+````