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How do you write a link containing a closing bracket in markdown syntax?

Markdown syntax for a link is pretty simple:

[Example](http://example.com/)

produces:

Example

But what if the link itself contains a closing bracket?

[Syntax](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_(programming_languages))

produces:

Syntax)

which is obviously broken.

Edit

Putting the url in quotes does not work

Solution

  • You can try to escape the character:

    [Syntax](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_\(programming_languages\))

    You can also encode the characters

    [Syntax](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_%28programming_languages%29)