# Does everyone's code highlight on Discourse look so bland?

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**Created:** [January 31, 2023, 2:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-everyones-code-highlight-on-discourse-look-so-bland/93803 "2023-01-31T02:56:12Z")\
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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.

- I think the themes’ CSS should be able to override the default styling of the identifiers. This doesn’t change _which_ identifiers and syntaxes are highlighted, but it changes _how_ they are highlighted. The defaults are here pulled from [code\_highlighting.scss](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/85971a8b677c90271f5b0c581952f181f5ee618f/app/assets/stylesheets/common/base/code_highlighting.scss) I believe.

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All of this is completely unrelated to how VS Code does its highlighting, which is powered by TextMate grammars.

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