diff --git a/mode/javascript/javascript.js b/mode/javascript/javascript.js
index 3139fd00d2..63eaa241b7 100644
--- a/mode/javascript/javascript.js
+++ b/mode/javascript/javascript.js
@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ CodeMirror.defineMode("javascript", function(config, parserConfig) {
     },
 
     indent: function(state, textAfter) {
-      if (state.tokenize == tokenComment) return CodeMirror.Pass;
+      if (state.tokenize == tokenComment || state.tokenize == tokenQuasi) return CodeMirror.Pass;
       if (state.tokenize != tokenBase) return 0;
       var firstChar = textAfter && textAfter.charAt(0), lexical = state.lexical, top
       // Kludge to prevent 'maybelse' from blocking lexical scope pops