# How to write three ticks (\`) in post content?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [April 19, 2017, 10:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-write-three-ticks-in-post-content/61240 "2017-04-19T10:03:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sujan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sujan/32/70979_2.png) [@Sujan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sujan)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 10:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-write-three-ticks-in-post-content/61240/9 "2017-04-19T10:57:08Z")

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> [@clapmyhands](#):
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> \<code\>```\</code\>

Fancy².

Let’s see if this works to output the three ````` (```) needed to format code. Yes it does. Didn’t know about `<code>` before. Thanks!

PS: Uh, did I just discover a “bug” in the quote engine? Backslashes are gone…

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