Read a CSV file with backticks into table

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I am following this tutorial to read data from a CSV into a table on my GitHub pages website. Some of the text contain backticks, which I would like processed as markdown so that it gets displayed as code on the website. However, by default they are displayed as literal backticks. Any suggested solutions?

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You could feed the data through the Markdownify filter. Example (untested code):

{{ site.data.authors[0].mtext | markdownify }}
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Thanks! I can confirm that your suggestion works.

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From the context, I gather you’re page is HTML, so in addition to markdownify-ing markdown fields, you’ll also need to HTML-escape plain-text fields with the escape filter. For example (untested code):

{{ site.data.books[0].title | escape }}

This will produce the correct markup for special characters like “&” and “<”. I.e. the title “James & the Giant Peach” (which is invalid HTML) will be escaped to: James &amp; the Giant Peach

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