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Unescaped pipe in code span

Reports unescaped | characters inside backtick code spans in table cells. A pipe inside a code span is treated as a column separator by the table parser, silently splitting the cell. Use the quick fix to escape affected pipes as \|.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

MarkdownTablePipeInCodeSpan
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Markdown

Inspection ID: MarkdownTablePipeInCodeSpan

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection MarkdownTablePipeInCodeSpan

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 30 June 2026