# Discourse CommonMark text highlighting?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-commonmark-text-highlighting/92936
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 23, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-commonmark-text-highlighting/92936 "2018-07-23T15:21:21Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-commonmark-text-highlighting/92936/4 "2018-07-23T16:02:27Z")

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> [@Lew\_Grothe](#):
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> - The version of Markdown-it included in Discourse is feature hobbled in some way?

We use just markdown-it.

That demo also supports footnotes which are a markdown-it plugin, that we provide at [Discourse Footnote](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-footnote/84533).

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