# Can’t format inline code on a French keyboard?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-t-format-inline-code-on-a-french-keyboard/391911
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** mobile
**Created:** [December 22, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-t-format-inline-code-on-a-french-keyboard/391911 "2025-12-22T12:48:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Salocin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Salocin)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-t-format-inline-code-on-a-french-keyboard/391911/1 "2025-12-22T12:48:28Z")
Hi guys,
I tried to post inline code like this `your code here` (this one is pasted from ask.discourse) but on iPhone when I try to get the single backticks the keyboard systematically write this one **´** even I choose the right one, as you can see below:
How do you manage to get inline code from iOS ?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-t-format-inline-code-on-a-french-keyboard/391911/2 "2025-12-22T12:57:13Z")
Not sure if that’s the answer you want, as I don’t have an iPhone, so I can only share my general workaround. I usually click the and use the ‘preformatted text’ button in there. If you typed something before you use it, it adds inline code; if you use it on a new line, it adds a block. You can also type first, select the text, and use the button.
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-t-format-inline-code-on-a-french-keyboard/391911/3 "2025-12-22T13:48:45Z")
i wonder if it’s the french keyboard because i’m not so sure that is the correct back tic character on your screenshot. is there a single quote/tic button when you switch to numeric? that one looks like accents, not quotation.
i have an iphone 15 pro and did this on US english keyboard
`hello world`
```plaintext
hello world
```
like Moin said, you can still do it via the composer toolbar button .
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### Author:  [@Salocin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Salocin)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-t-format-inline-code-on-a-french-keyboard/391911/4 "2025-12-22T14:07:28Z")
Thanks.
To be honest I was wondering why there wasn’t a button in the text editor to format text, in fact you have to scroll horizontally to see this + appear! At least on iOS (iPhone 17 Pro).
I suppose this editor bar is customisable?
```plaintext
So easy now!
```
```css
.custom {
Background: #000;
}
```
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-t-format-inline-code-on-a-french-keyboard/391911/5 "2025-12-22T14:12:23Z")
Yes, I think those options on the ‘abc’ French keyboard are accents, so that one is the grave one.
And the backtick one is found by long-pressing on the apostrophe button in the ‘123’ keyboard screen.
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### Author:  [@Salocin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Salocin)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-t-format-inline-code-on-a-french-keyboard/391911/6 "2025-12-22T14:14:25Z")
`Testing what you wrote`
It works! Thanks @JammyDodger 🙏🏼
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2026, 2:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-t-format-inline-code-on-a-french-keyboard/391911/7 "2026-01-21T14:14:43Z")
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