How can I avoid surrounding underscores to be converted in Trello card descriptions?

Question

When I am trying to add for example WS_EX_APPWINDOW as a text in a Trello card description it'll be converted to WSEXAPPWINDOW.

Am I assuming correct, that surrounding underscores are used for italic style?

How can I achieve to display WS_EX_APPWINDOW without conversion?

Answer 1

Trello accept Markdown syntax in card descriptions. When you surround a word with underscores it will be printed in italic

However you can use underscores escaping them, e.g.

WS\\_EX\\_APPWINDOW

will be printed as

WS_EX_APPWINDOW

If you wan to know more on markdown syntax please refer to the official documentation

Answer 2

Thanks to markdown, I ended up using backtick quotes (`) to indicate the mentioned WS_EX_APPWINDOW example as code within the text. Within the code span the underscore conversion is not performed.