# Disable markdown

**URL:** <https://forums.rocket.chat/t/disable-markdown/20463>\
**Category:** Community Support\
**Tags:** rocketchat-apps\
**Created:** [August 29, 2024, 10:58am UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/disable-markdown/20463 "2024-08-29T10:58:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Lusell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea666f/32.png) [@Lusell](https://forums.rocket.chat/u/Lusell)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 10:58am UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/disable-markdown/20463/1 "2024-08-29T10:58:30Z")

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### Description

Good day,

First of all, thank you for your product; we are currently testing it. Could you please let us know if there is a possibility to globally disable text formatting (if I’m not mistaken, Markdown is responsible for this)? We do not want to escape our symbols (\*, \_, and so on).

The text might be distorted as I am using Google Translate.

### Server Setup Information

- Version of Rocket.Chat Server: 6.9.3
- Operating System: Debian 12
- Deployment Method: snap
- Number of Running Instances:
- DB Replicaset Oplog: 5.0.15 / wiredTiger (oplog enable)
- NodeJS Version: v14.21.2
- MongoDB Version: 5.0.15
- Proxy: 
- Firewalls involved: nftables

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**Author:** ![reetp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/forums.rocket.chat/reetp/32/5546_2.png) [@reetp](https://forums.rocket.chat/u/reetp)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/disable-markdown/20463/2 "2024-08-29T14:37:09Z")

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> Version of Rocket.Chat Server: 6.9.3

Can you check your snap version please? I think you should be on 6.11.1 or at least 6.10.4 as your version has a security hole you need to fix.

> Could you please let us know if there is a possibility to globally disable text formatting (if I’m not mistaken, Markdown is responsible for this)

Used to be this (if you search here) but can’t see that as a setting right now.

> [@Plain text without markdown](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/plain-text-without-markdown/15040):
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> Is there a option to stop using markdown on rocket-chat client? For example when I send \\server-name\_foldername I see \server-name\_foldername and when I send slight_smile I see smile. I want to see what I really send without using fixes like `text` and ```code```.

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**Author:** ![Lusell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea666f/32.png) [@Lusell](https://forums.rocket.chat/u/Lusell)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/disable-markdown/20463/3 "2024-08-29T16:09:49Z")

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ADMIN \> Settings \> Message \> Markdown.

I don’t have this setting in the ‘Message’ section of my settings.

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**Author:** ![reetp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/forums.rocket.chat/reetp/32/5546_2.png) [@reetp](https://forums.rocket.chat/u/reetp)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 7:29am UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/disable-markdown/20463/4 "2024-08-30T07:29:16Z")

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Yup they’ve changed that it seems.

Admin, Settings, Messages

Code highlighting languages list

See markdown in there. Possibly that.

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**Author:** ![MarkusL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@MarkusL](https://forums.rocket.chat/u/MarkusL)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 7:34am UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/disable-markdown/20463/5 "2026-07-14T07:34:50Z")

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I’d like to give this topic a nudge; two years have passed, and sending paths containing underscores (`_`) still only works via a workaround. Has anyone found a solution? The setting mentioned previously no longer exists, and the “Code to highlight the language list” item unfortunately isn’t related to this issue.