diff --git a/packages/react-components/src/Expander.tsx b/packages/react-components/src/Expander.tsx
index 67a4d8730d..ae704a8d64 100644
--- a/packages/react-components/src/Expander.tsx
+++ b/packages/react-components/src/Expander.tsx
@@ -29,6 +29,16 @@ export interface Props {
   withHidden?: boolean;
 }
 
+function splitSingle (value: string[], sep: string): string[] {
+  return value.reduce((result: string[], value: string): string[] => {
+    return value.split(sep).reduce((result: string[], value: string) => result.concat(value), result);
+  }, []);
+}
+
+function splitParts (value: string): string[] {
+  return ['[', ']'].reduce((result: string[], sep) => splitSingle(result, sep), [value]);
+}
+
 function formatMeta (meta?: Meta): React.ReactNode | null {
   if (!meta || !meta.documentation.length) {
     return null;
@@ -36,12 +46,13 @@ function formatMeta (meta?: Meta): React.ReactNode | null {
 
   const strings = meta.documentation.map((doc) => doc.toString().trim());
   const firstEmpty = strings.findIndex((doc) => !doc.length);
-
-  return (
+  const parts = splitParts((
     firstEmpty === -1
       ? strings
       : strings.slice(0, firstEmpty)
-  ).join(' ');
+  ).join(' ').replace(/\\/g, '').replace(/`/g, ''));
+
+  return <>{parts.map((part, index) => index % 2 ? <em key={index}>[{part}]</em> : <span key={index}>{part}</span>)}&nbsp;</>;
 }
 
 function Expander ({ children, className = '', help, helpIcon, isOpen, isPadded, summary, summaryHead, summaryMeta, summarySub, withHidden }: Props): React.ReactElement<Props> {