Can I insert code blocks in markdown and have the syntax highlighting work on Confluence?

[John Larkin]

The prompt should state it all, but I'll provide a little bit more detail.

Normally, when I write markdown i can enable code comments with:

```

my code goes here

```

When I preview that markdown, everything looks fine. However, when I go onto my Confluence page, go to Insert More Content > Markup > Insert Markup

and copy and paste that totally valid markdown, it doesn't really format the code or do any type of nice code blocking. Is there anyway to get this to work?