The Dead Simple Markdown Guide to Escaping Characters

To display special characters in Markdown, use a backslash (\) before the character. This technique helps you show symbols that might otherwise be interpreted as formatting commands, such as asterisks or brackets.


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Escaping Characters

To display a literal character that would otherwise be used to format text in a Markdown document, add a backslash (\) in front of the character.

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\* Without the backslash, this would be a bullet in an unordered list.

\ The rendered output looks like this:

\ * Without the backslash, this would be a bullet in an unordered list.

Characters You Can Escape

You can use a backslash to escape the following characters.

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| Character | Name | |----|----| | \ | backslash | | ` | backtick (see also escaping backticks in code) | | * | asterisk | | _ | underscore | | { } | curly braces | | [ ] | brackets | | < > | angle brackets | | ( ) | parentheses | | # | pound sign | | + | plus sign | | - | minus sign (hyphen) | | . | dot | | ! | exclamation mark | | | | pipe (see also escaping pipe in tables) |

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:::info This guide is a Matt Cone project available on Markdown Guide under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

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