# How to prevent hyphen becoming a bullet list?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-prevent-hyphen-becoming-a-bullet-list/122222>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 6, 2019, 9:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-prevent-hyphen-becoming-a-bullet-list/122222 "2019-07-06T09:25:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-prevent-hyphen-becoming-a-bullet-list/122222/6 "2019-07-06T19:48:21Z")

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Use a backslash in front of the dash. See [Markdown Reference](https://commonmark.org/help)

- list

- not a list

```
- list

\- not a list

```

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