diff --git a/news/changelog-1.11.md b/news/changelog-1.11.md
index 35f6ee3a28..640dc1e0d2 100644
--- a/news/changelog-1.11.md
+++ b/news/changelog-1.11.md
@@ -5,3 +5,7 @@ All changes included in 1.11:
 ### `knitr`
 
 - ([#14735](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/14735)): Fix `cache-globals` rejecting arrays and booleans, so it now accepts the same forms as `cache-vars` and as knitr itself. Previously only a single string validated, which rejected both `cache-globals: [var_1, var_2]` and the documented `cache-globals: false`.
+
+## Other fixes and improvements
+
+- ([#14765](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/14765)): Emit `mermaid` diagrams in a `{=html}` raw block. Quarto no longer reads a bare `---` line in the diagram as a YAML front matter delimiter. Before, such a line hid the rest of the document, and the `ojs` cells after it did not run. (author: @mcanouil) (author: @mcanouil)
diff --git a/src/core/handlers/mermaid.ts b/src/core/handlers/mermaid.ts
index 8bef0cd184..c997a49177 100644
--- a/src/core/handlers/mermaid.ts
+++ b/src/core/handlers/mermaid.ts
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ import {
 import { Element } from "../deno-dom.ts";
 import { convertFromYaml } from "../lib/yaml-schema/from-yaml.ts";
 import { readYamlFromString } from "../yaml.ts";
-import { pandocHtmlBlock, pandocRawStr } from "../pandoc/codegen.ts";
+import { pandocCode, pandocHtmlBlock, pandocRawStr } from "../pandoc/codegen.ts";
 import { LocalizedError } from "../lib/located-error.ts";
 import { info, warning } from "../../deno_ral/log.ts";
 import { FormatDependency } from "../../config/types.ts";
@@ -402,13 +402,6 @@ mermaid.initialize(${JSON.stringify(mermaidOpts)});
     // deno-lint-ignore require-await
     const makeJs = async () => {
       setupMermaidJsRuntime();
-      // removed until we use mermaid 10.0.0
-      //
-      // const { baseName: tooltipName } = handlerContext
-      //   .uniqueFigureName(
-      //     "mermaid-tooltip-",
-      //     "",
-      //   );
       const preAttrs = [];
       if (options.label) {
         preAttrs.push(`label="${options.label}"`);
@@ -426,16 +419,19 @@ mermaid.initialize(${JSON.stringify(mermaidOpts)});
         attrs.reveal = true;
       }
 
+      // the diagram source is user text emitted verbatim, and can contain lines
+      // that breakQuartoMd would read as yaml front matter delimiters (mermaid's
+      // own `---` config block, see https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/14765).
+      // a raw html block keeps the markdown splitter from looking inside it.
+      const rawHtmlBlock = pandocCode({
+        language: "=html",
+        contents: [preEl],
+      });
+
       return this.build(
         handlerContext,
         cell,
-        mappedConcat([
-          preEl.mappedString(),
-          // tooltips appear to be broken in mermaid 9.2.2?
-          // They don't even work on their website: https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/flowchart
-          // we drop them for now.
-          // `\n<div id="${tooltipName}" class="mermaidTooltip"></div>`,
-        ]),
+        rawHtmlBlock.mappedString(),
         options,
         attrs,
         new Set([kMermaidFormat]),
diff --git a/tests/docs/smoke-all/2026/08/12/14765.qmd b/tests/docs/smoke-all/2026/08/12/14765.qmd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b27e2d5274
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/docs/smoke-all/2026/08/12/14765.qmd
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+---
+title: "mermaid config front matter and ojs"
+format: html
+_quarto:
+  tests:
+    html:
+      ensureHtmlElements:
+        - ["pre.mermaid.mermaid-js", "div[id^=\"ojs-cell-\"]"]
+        - []
+---
+
+A `mermaid` cell can carry Mermaid's own `---` front matter to set diagram
+options such as `config`. That source is emitted verbatim into the intermediate
+markdown, where its closing `---` used to be read as the start of a YAML front
+matter block. Everything after it, including the `ojs` cell below, was swallowed
+into that never-terminated block, so no OJS cell was ever compiled and the cell
+rendered as plain code instead.
+
+```{mermaid}
+---
+config:
+    look: handDrawn
+---
+graph LR
+    A --> B
+```
+
+```{ojs}
+//| echo: true
+x = 2
+x ** 5
+```