How to stop attempted K/LaTeX rendering of "$1 million" or "$100,000"

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Summary

Is there a way to stop the attempted KaTeX rendering of words like “$100 million” and “$1 billion” with st.write or st.markdown? Do I just need to strip out all “$”? Is there a special way to escape the “$” character? Thanks!

Steps to reproduce

Code snippet:

st.write("text with phrase like $100 million")
st.markdown("text with phrase like $1 billion")

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Expected behavior:

Regular text rendering of “$100 million”.

Actual behavior:

Attempted KaTeX rendering. Makes the text messy.

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Debug info

  • Streamlit version: (get it with $ streamlit version) 1.21.0
  • Python version: (get it with $ python --version) 3.10.6
  • Using Conda? PipEnv? PyEnv? Pex? PyEnv
  • OS version: MacOS 13.2.1
  • Browser version: Chrome Version 112.0.5615.49 (Official Build) (arm64)

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lol at myself. Here’s the solution in case anyone googles in the future.

text = text.replace(“$”, “$”)

edit: the blackslash escaped. put a backslash before the $.

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