Escape Asterisk Symbol in Markdown Editor

Having problems showing the asterisk symbol for published content? If you’re using a markdown (and some other) editor, you probably need to escape the asterisk to display it in the browser.

To escape escape the \* symbol you need to use a backlash right before it. Like this:

An asterix symbol with a backlash before it.

Learn how to escape other symbols on this Markdown Readme on GitHub.


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