diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 1bf9844b98..79996eecc6 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: knitr
 Type: Package
 Title: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R
-Version: 1.43.5
+Version: 1.43.6
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Yihui", "Xie", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "xie@yihui.name", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0645-5666")),
     person("Abhraneel", "Sarma", role = "ctb"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index e4a4f800ac..f56708e11a 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
 
 - Use the correct type of progress bar when rendering Quarto documents in RStudio, which takes place in RStudio's background jobs pane (thanks, @hadley, #2271).
 
+## MINOR CHANGES
+
+- In-body chunk options (`#|`) are now preserved when extracting code from a document via `purl()` (thanks, @LuisLauM, #2268).
+
 # CHANGES IN knitr VERSION 1.43
 
 ## NEW FEATURES
diff --git a/R/block.R b/R/block.R
index feaf7fe2e1..ff48f77386 100644
--- a/R/block.R
+++ b/R/block.R
@@ -626,13 +626,12 @@ process_tangle.inline = function(x) {
 
 # add a label [and extra chunk options] to a code chunk
 label_code = function(code, options) {
-  code = one_string(c('', code, ''))
-  comments = if (is_quarto()) one_string(options$params$yaml.code) else paste0(
+  comments = paste0(
     '## ----', options$params.src,
     strrep('-', max(getOption('width') - 11L - nchar(options$params.src), 0L)),
     '----'
   )
-  paste0(comments, code)
+  one_string(c(comments, options$params.chunk, code, ''))
 }
 
 as.source = function(code) {
diff --git a/R/parser.R b/R/parser.R
index f7d67a0fa6..0f76ab62e1 100644
--- a/R/parser.R
+++ b/R/parser.R
@@ -145,7 +145,9 @@ parse_block = function(code, header, params.src, markdown_mode = out_format('mar
     }
   }
 
-  structure(list(params = params, params.src = params.src), class = 'block')
+  structure(class = 'block', list(
+    params = params, params.src = params.src, params.chunk = parts$src)
+  )
 }
 
 get_chunk_indent = function(header) {
diff --git a/tests/testit/test-block.R b/tests/testit/test-block.R
index b00446b975..51d487d970 100644
--- a/tests/testit/test-block.R
+++ b/tests/testit/test-block.R
@@ -17,13 +17,8 @@ assert('inline_exec only accept character result', {
 assert('label_code correct adds comment on code for yaml block or parsed param', {
   oldW = getOption('width')
   options(width = 20)
-  old = .knitEnv$is_quarto
-  .knitEnv$is_quarto = FALSE
   (label_code("1+1", list(params.src = "test, eval=TRUE")) %==% "## ----test, eval=TRUE----\n1+1\n")
   options(width = oldW)
-  .knitEnv$is_quarto = TRUE
-  (label_code("1+1",
-              list(params = list(yaml.code = c("#| label: test", "#| eval: true")))
-              ) %==% "#| label: test\n#| eval: true\n1+1\n")
-  .knitEnv$is_quarto = NULL
+  (label_code("1+1", list(params.chunk = c("#| label: test", "#| eval: true"))) %==%
+      "## --------\n#| label: test\n#| eval: true\n1+1\n")
 })