# Long code blocks get no higlighting
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-code-blocks-get-no-higlighting/206537
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [October 20, 2021, 11:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-code-blocks-get-no-higlighting/206537 "2021-10-20T11:17:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2021, 11:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-code-blocks-get-no-higlighting/206537/1 "2021-10-20T11:17:54Z")
I noticed that long code blocks get no highlighting - like e.g. 36k+ symbols or somewhat around that. How can I fix it?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-code-blocks-get-no-higlighting/206537/2 "2021-10-20T17:26:33Z")
Limit was added here:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/10125](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/10125)
We tried moving highlight to a dedicated worker (and consequently a background thread) but hit some issues around CORS.
If you want to lift the limit a good approach is taking this PR
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/d09f283e911c0847ca23372aceefc344526690d2](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/d09f283e911c0847ca23372aceefc344526690d2)
and trying to fix the CORS issues it had and made it be reverted.
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2021, 10:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-code-blocks-get-no-higlighting/206537/3 "2021-10-20T22:01:19Z")
So is Discourse team going to fix it eventually?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-code-blocks-get-no-higlighting/206537/4 "2021-10-20T22:29:52Z")
It’s not in our roadmap at the moment. While getting the highlight working in a background worker is nice to have, the impact of the limit is low considering how popular code blocks of over 30000 characters are in typical discussions.
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 5:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-code-blocks-get-no-higlighting/206537/5 "2021-10-21T05:10:16Z")
Could you please at least expose that 30000 number as a configuration? Possibly in the container .yml file? Or in the Settings? Whatever way would work, I just need to increase that limit.