How to escape a colon in Front matter YAML?

In the front matter of your Jekyll posts, you might want to include a colon. However, if you don't escape it, you will get an "Error: YAML Exception reading …" error.

There are 3 ways to escape the colon in the Front matter of your posts.

1. Put the text around quotes.

   Wrong

    title: How to escape colon: in Front matter YAML
   

   Correct

    title: "How to escape colon: in Front matter YAML"
   

2. Replace the colon with :

    title: "How to escape colon: in Front matter YAML"
   

   The Jekyll YAML parser will replace it will the :

3. Use a greater than sign (>) and put the text indented and in a new line.

    title: >
        How to escape: colon in Front matter YAML?
   

Personally, whenever I need to escape the colon (:), I just put the value around quotes.