# Fenced code block is formatting part of it with italics

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/fenced-code-block-is-formatting-part-of-it-with-italics/257015>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 3, 2023, 11:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fenced-code-block-is-formatting-part-of-it-with-italics/257015 "2023-03-03T23:08:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![supermathie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/supermathie/32/507518_2.png) [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 12:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fenced-code-block-is-formatting-part-of-it-with-italics/257015/2 "2023-03-04T00:06:47Z")

</div>

The blue “status” is the hint: it’s formatting with your default code language.

Here on meta it’s “text”.

You can fix this by specifying the language with:

````
```text

````

on the first fence.

Specifying it as the default “auto” I get:

```auto
| Left-aligned | Center-aligned | Right-aligned |
| :--- | :---: | ---: |
| git status | git status | git status |
| git diff | git diff | git diff |

```

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fenced-code-block-is-formatting-part-of-it-with-italics/257015)._