# "Disable Markdown" Button?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-markdown-button/40068
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 24, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-markdown-button/40068 "2016-02-24T04:16:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![anon58331930](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@anon58331930](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon58331930)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-markdown-button/40068/1 "2016-02-24T04:16:20Z")

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Is it possible to include a button that allows you to disable Markdown? It would be useful for using the two asterisks without italicizing.

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### Author: ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2016, 4:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-markdown-button/40068/2 "2016-02-24T04:24:29Z")

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Much easier to simply escape them, no?

```plaintext
\*\*non-italicised\*\*

```

> \*\*non-italicised\*\*

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### Author: ![anon58331930](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@anon58331930](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon58331930)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-markdown-button/40068/3 "2016-02-24T13:17:58Z")

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Okay, thanks! Didn’t know that.

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### Author: ![steko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@steko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/steko)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-markdown-button/40068/4 "2016-02-24T20:52:15Z")

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Or alternatively, ` **inside backticks** ` (but that will show as a `<code>` span).

```plaintext
` **inside backticks** ` 

```

> ` **inside backticks** `