# Modify syntax highlighting for IJulia in Jupyter lab to resemble Jupyter notebook?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/modify-syntax-highlighting-for-ijulia-in-jupyter-lab-to-resemble-jupyter-notebook/82168>\
**Category:** Jupyter-Notebook\
**Tags:** ijulia\
**Created:** [June 3, 2022, 1:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/modify-syntax-highlighting-for-ijulia-in-jupyter-lab-to-resemble-jupyter-notebook/82168 "2022-06-03T01:33:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 1:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/modify-syntax-highlighting-for-ijulia-in-jupyter-lab-to-resemble-jupyter-notebook/82168/1 "2022-06-03T01:33:52Z")

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Hello. Is it possible to modify the syntax highlighting scheme in Jupyter lab to resemble jupyter notebook in IJulia? I notice that the name of a function in a function call does not get highlighted in Jupyter lab like in Jupyter notebook. You can see the screenshots

 ![Screenshot from 2022-06-03 07-02-39](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/7/0/709707c5a3ebbf97a2a1d08f32fe179013c2aa15.png)  
 ![Screenshot from 2022-06-03 07-02-54](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/0/3/0331db10682dcf6d571155ab5eb489e01421c3f4.png)

Things like `plot()` and `run()` are highlighted in classic notebook but not in lab. Is it possible to modify this? Only seems to happen with the IJulia kernel.