diff --git a/src/components/postElements/body/view/postBodyView.js b/src/components/postElements/body/view/postBodyView.js
index 3c843cb1e..f07f65b44 100644
--- a/src/components/postElements/body/view/postBodyView.js
+++ b/src/components/postElements/body/view/postBodyView.js
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { withNavigation } from 'react-navigation';
 import { injectIntl } from 'react-intl';
 
 import HTML from 'react-native-html-renderer';
+import { getParentsTagsRecursively } from 'react-native-html-renderer/src/HTMLUtils';
 // Styles
 import styles from './postBodyStyles';
 
@@ -159,6 +160,12 @@ class PostBody extends PureComponent {
     }
   };
 
+  _alterData = (node) => {
+    if (node.type === 'text' && node.data.includes('markdown-author-link') && node.parent && getParentsTagsRecursively(node.parent).includes('code')) {
+      return node.data.replace(/<[^>]*>/g, '');
+    }
+  }
+
   render() {
     const { body, isComment } = this.props;
     const _initialDimensions = isComment
@@ -181,6 +188,7 @@ class PostBody extends PureComponent {
           baseFontStyle={styles.text}
           imagesMaxWidth={isComment ? WIDTH - 50 : WIDTH}
           alterNode={e => this._alterNode(e, isComment)}
+          alterData={e => this._alterData(e)}
         />
       </Fragment>
     );
diff --git a/src/utils/markdownToHtml.js b/src/utils/markdownToHtml.js
index 539ba2f8a..9304f1158 100644
--- a/src/utils/markdownToHtml.js
+++ b/src/utils/markdownToHtml.js
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ export const markDown2Html = (input) => {
 const replaceAuthorNames = input => input.replace(authorNameRegex, (match, preceeding1, preceeding2, user) => {
   const userLower = user.toLowerCase();
   const preceedings = (preceeding1 || '') + (preceeding2 || '');
-  return `${preceedings}<a class="markdown-author-link" href="${userLower}" data-author="${userLower}"> @${user}</a>`;
+  return `${preceedings}<a class="markdown-author-link" href="${userLower}" data-author="${userLower}">@${user}</a>`;
 });
 
 const replaceTags = input => input.replace(tagsRegex, (tag) => {