Title: Excaping Shortcodes for Display Inside Markdown Code Block
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Excaping Shortcodes for Display Inside Markdown Code Block

 *  Resolved [Baden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baden03/)
 * (@baden03)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excaping-shortcodes-for-display-inside-markdown-code-block/)
 * With out markdown, it’s very easy to escape a shortcode for display like so:
   `
   <code>[[shortcode attribute="value"]content[/shortcode]]</code>`
 * However, this does not work when inside a markup code block using backticks:
 *     ```
       <ul>
           <li>item one</li>
           <li> item two [[shortcode attribute="value"]content[/shortcode]]</li>
           <li> item three</li>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 * In the above example, the shortcode would have been processed although it is 
   placed inside the markup code block. How can we display code blocks inside of
   markup with escaped shortcodes that are for display only?
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 *  Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
 * (@jeherve)
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 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excaping-shortcodes-for-display-inside-markdown-code-block/#post-5330706)
 * You do not need to add any code markup. As long as the shortcode is wrapped in
   square brackets, the shortcode should be displayed and not processed. This seems
   to work in my tests:
 *     ```
       <ul>
           <li>item one</li>
           <li> item two [[shortcode attribute="value"]content[/shortcode]]</li>
           <li> item three</li>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 *     ```
       - item one
       - item two [[shortcode attribute="value"]content[/shortcode]]
       - item three
       ```
   
 * Could you give it a try, and let me know how it goes?
 *  Thread Starter [Baden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baden03/)
 * (@baden03)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excaping-shortcodes-for-display-inside-markdown-code-block/#post-5330707)
 * The desired result in your example would be:
 *     ```
       - item one
       - item two [shortcode attribute="value"]content[/shortcode]
       - item three
       ```
   
 * as:
    `example: [[shortcode attribute="value"]content[/shortcode]]` would render:`
   example: [shortcode attribute="value"]content[/shortcode]`
 * But the good news is: [We worked it out!](http://spacedonkey.de/1385/escaping-shortcode-examples/)
 *  Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
 * (@jeherve)
 * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excaping-shortcodes-for-display-inside-markdown-code-block/#post-5330708)
 * Right, that’s the results I get too, whether I use standard HTML to build my 
   list (first example) or Markdown (Second example).
 * Let me know if you have other questions!

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 * Last reply from: [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excaping-shortcodes-for-display-inside-markdown-code-block/#post-5330708)
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