diff --git a/crates/markdown/examples/markdown.rs b/crates/markdown/examples/markdown.rs
index 30cbc64736..643a54b54e 100644
--- a/crates/markdown/examples/markdown.rs
+++ b/crates/markdown/examples/markdown.rs
@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ Links are created using the format [http://zed.dev](https://zed.dev).
 
 They can also be detected automatically, for example https://zed.dev/blog.
 
+They may contain dollar signs:
+
+[https://svelte.dev/docs/svelte/$state](https://svelte.dev/docs/svelte/$state)
+
+https://svelte.dev/docs/svelte/$state
+
 ## Images
 Images are like links, but with an exclamation mark `!` in front.
 
diff --git a/crates/markdown/src/parser.rs b/crates/markdown/src/parser.rs
index d21892b7de..b605a35af5 100644
--- a/crates/markdown/src/parser.rs
+++ b/crates/markdown/src/parser.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ pub fn parse_markdown(text: &str) -> Vec<(Range<usize>, MarkdownEvent)> {
     let mut options = Options::all();
     options.remove(pulldown_cmark::Options::ENABLE_DEFINITION_LIST);
     options.remove(pulldown_cmark::Options::ENABLE_YAML_STYLE_METADATA_BLOCKS);
+    options.remove(pulldown_cmark::Options::ENABLE_MATH);
 
     let mut events = Vec::new();
     let mut within_link = false;