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Escaping backtick in Markdown

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The backtick (also known as the grave accent or backquote) is used to start a code section in Markdown, because of this it’s a little tricky to include it without triggering the code formatting in a page. This snippet demonstrates the various ways of displaying a backtick.

Backtick outside code

To include a non-code formatted backtick it can be added by escaping it with a \.

\`

Backtick within code

Wrapping inline code blocks in double backticks instead of single backticks allow a backtick to be used.

`` ` ``

Alternatively a code block can be used, this will wrap everything in a <pre> however. To do this either indent 4 spaces to start a code block

    `

or use fenced code blocks if supported

```
`
```

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