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. \* 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. 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) This guide is a Matt Cone project available on Markdown Guide under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. 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. \ \* Without the backslash, this would be a bullet in an unordered list. \* 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. 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) 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) Character Name Character Character Name Name backslash backslash backslash ` backtick (see also escaping backticks in code) ` ` backtick (see also escaping backticks in code) backtick (see also escaping backticks in code ) escaping backticks in code * asterisk * * asterisk asterisk _ underscore _ _ underscore underscore { } curly braces { } { } curly braces curly braces [ ] brackets [ ] [ ] brackets brackets < > angle brackets < > < > angle brackets angle brackets ( ) parentheses ( ) ( ) parentheses parentheses # pound sign # # pound sign pound sign + plus sign + + plus sign plus sign - minus sign (hyphen) - - minus sign (hyphen) minus sign (hyphen) . dot . . dot dot ! exclamation mark ! ! exclamation mark exclamation mark | pipe (see also escaping pipe in tables) | | pipe (see also escaping pipe in tables) pipe (see also escaping pipe in tables ) escaping pipe in tables This guide is a Matt Cone project available on Markdown Guide under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. This guide is a Matt Cone project available on Markdown Guide under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Matt Cone Markdown Guide
