Escaping characters in the old editor

For information on how to characters in the new editor, see Formatting text.

To display markup characters, escape them by using a backslash (\) or tilde (~):
```
\*: Asterisk
~+: Plus sign
```
To escape all characters in a certain text fragment, enclose this fragment in double quotes (""):
```
""<tag>""
```
If you want to display a backquote inside a source code fragment, enclose the code fragment in double backquotes (``):
```
``SELECT `id` FROM `table` ``
```
All markup characters placed in the source code are escaped automatically:
```
Formatting text:
```
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Any text in angle brackets (<...>) is handled as an HTML tag and is not explicitly displayed on the page. To display this text, you'll need to escape it, format it as a code snippet, or replace the opening angle bracket (<) with the < code:
```
&lt;tag>
```