# Can I highlight some text in a fenced code block?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-highlight-some-text-in-a-fenced-code-block/32022
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [8월 12, 2015, 11:30오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-highlight-some-text-in-a-fenced-code-block/32022 "2015-08-12T11:30:46Z")
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### Author:  [@Kristen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kristen)
#### Post date: [8월 12, 2015, 11:30오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-highlight-some-text-in-a-fenced-code-block/32022/1 "2015-08-12T11:30:46Z")
In a Discourse forum for techies discussing code in a specific language I’d like to be able to highlight something in a code block. For example the O/P posts some, broken, code and I fix it up. The user has to carefully read my improved code to see what I have changed, and putting a comment in the code like:
xxx = yyy \<— I MADE A CHANGE HERE
is a bit lame!, particularly on a complex line.
I suppose, ideally, it would just be a background colour to highlight a section, but if it was possible to put some sort of [color=red] or similar tags into the code that would provide more facilities to people which more artistically then me!
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### Author:  [@rumpelsepp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rumpelsepp)
#### Post date: [8월 12, 2015, 11:45오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-highlight-some-text-in-a-fenced-code-block/32022/2 "2015-08-12T11:45:48Z")
What about diff?
```diff
diff --git a/pynote/formatting.py b/pynote/formatting.py
index f0d7d53..eda1906 100644
--- a/pynote/formatting.py
+++ b/pynote/formatting.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
import click
-from pynote import config
+from . import config
def echo(text, no_pager=False):
```
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### Author:  [@StanD](https://meta.discourse.org/u/StanD)
#### Post date: [2월 25, 2016, 12:38오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-highlight-some-text-in-a-fenced-code-block/32022/3 "2016-02-25T00:38:50Z")
This is something I am looking for but can you tell me how you did this? That is, how do you format in the editor to get this to display?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2월 25, 2016, 1:02오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-highlight-some-text-in-a-fenced-code-block/32022/4 "2016-02-25T01:02:19Z")
```diff
line 1
line 2
+line 3
-line 4
line 5
```
````
``` diff
line 1
line 2
+line 3
-line 4
line 5
```
````
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [12월 22, 2018, 11:53오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-highlight-some-text-in-a-fenced-code-block/32022/5 "2018-12-22T11:53:51Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [1월 21, 2019, 12:06오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-highlight-some-text-in-a-fenced-code-block/32022/6 "2019-01-21T12:06:25Z")
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