# Discourse syntax highlighting?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discourse-syntax-highlighting/128013>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Created:** [April 12, 2025, 9:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discourse-syntax-highlighting/128013 "2025-04-12T21:47:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![MilesCranmer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/milescranmer/32/21070_2.png) [@MilesCranmer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/MilesCranmer)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discourse-syntax-highlighting/128013/3 "2025-04-12T21:52:42Z")

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Thanks. Will post here to not ping everybody on that thread

> [@Does everyone's code highlight on Discourse look so bland?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-everyones-code-highlight-on-discourse-look-so-bland/93803/13):
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> To my knowledge, Fredrik’s branch has not (yet) been upstreamed into highlights.js. It’d be great if it could! Just to be clear, the things we have control over on Discourse are: The default highlighting language — this is set to julia The enabled highlighting languages — this is set to 33 languages and we can add more if you find it’d be helpful. play_button List of currently enabled languages I think the themes’ CSS should be able to override the default styling of the identifiers. This does…

@mbauman do you know if there are any updates to what things we have control over on Discourse? I feel like Discourse is popular enough for someone somewhere to figure out how to customize code highlighting CSS for a specific community

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