# No Highlighting of Group mentions in Markdown Preview
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-highlighting-of-group-mentions-in-markdown-preview/41184
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2016 年 3 月 17 日午前 9:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-highlighting-of-group-mentions-in-markdown-preview/41184 "2016-03-17T09:46:41Z")
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### Author:  [@rriemann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rriemann)
#### Post date: [2016 年 3 月 17 日午前 9:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-highlighting-of-group-mentions-in-markdown-preview/41184/1 "2016-03-17T09:46:41Z")
I just noticed that while usernames have a different style applied in the markdown preview (bold, gray), this is not the case for group mentions. Is this intentional? I consider this as incoherent and suggest to apply either the same style to group mentions in the preview or a different one.
Advantage: Text author is assured that mention is well recognised and functional.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016 年 3 月 17 日午前 10:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-highlighting-of-group-mentions-in-markdown-preview/41184/2 "2016-03-17T10:10:19Z")
Please refer to the category description of bug. This is not a bug.
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### Author:  [@rriemann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rriemann)
#### Post date: [2016 年 3 月 17 日午前 10:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-highlighting-of-group-mentions-in-markdown-preview/41184/3 "2016-03-17T10:28:11Z")
I agree. I thought first this would be only the case for groups with a minus in the name `@blub-blub` and forgot to change the category later on.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016 年 3 月 17 日午前 10:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-highlighting-of-group-mentions-in-markdown-preview/41184/4 "2016-03-17T10:32:18Z")
I am really not following
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### Author:  [@rriemann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rriemann)
#### Post date: [2016 年 3 月 17 日午前 10:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-highlighting-of-group-mentions-in-markdown-preview/41184/5 "2016-03-17T10:39:47Z")
I updated yesterday.
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### Author:  [@rriemann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rriemann)
#### Post date: [2016 年 3 月 17 日午前 10:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-highlighting-of-group-mentions-in-markdown-preview/41184/6 "2016-03-17T10:40:29Z")
Once posted, the bold-gray style is applied.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016 年 3 月 17 日午前 10:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-highlighting-of-group-mentions-in-markdown-preview/41184/7 "2016-03-17T10:55:45Z")
Does the group allow mentions? what if you call it @beta is it something to do with the dash?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [2016 年 3 月 17 日午後 12:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-highlighting-of-group-mentions-in-markdown-preview/41184/8 "2016-03-17T12:59:12Z")
I wonder if this fix needed to be applied at a second location too for dealing with the composer preview?
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/833af461ab5d9e170306172b68541bd62b09201a](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/833af461ab5d9e170306172b68541bd62b09201a)
It stemmed from
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-mentions-that-begin-with-the-same-characters-may-be-incorrect/39892](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-mentions-that-begin-with-the-same-characters-may-be-incorrect/39892)
Which had an issue with group names with dahses in them.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [2016 年 3 月 27 日午前 3:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-highlighting-of-group-mentions-in-markdown-preview/41184/9 "2016-03-27T03:11:53Z")
Looks like this may have gone unfixed?
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### Author:  [@rriemann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rriemann)
#### Post date: [2016 年 4 月 12 日午後 2:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-highlighting-of-group-mentions-in-markdown-preview/41184/10 "2016-04-12T14:54:54Z")
In the preview my group `@ORGANISATION-Board` is still not highlighted accordingly.
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### Author:  [@rriemann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rriemann)
#### Post date: [2016 年 5 月 18 日午前 8:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-highlighting-of-group-mentions-in-markdown-preview/41184/11 "2016-05-18T08:39:20Z")
I just updated to the most recent version and the highlighting does not work. ☹
While mentioning `team` here seems to work and it gets a mention-group and notify class attributed, it only gets a mention-tested class in my Discourse instance.
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Please refer to the category description of bug. This is not a bug.
I suggest to put this topic back to the bug category.
Group names without a dash are not working either for me. So I kindly ask to test group name mentions with and without dashes at other Discourse instances.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016 年 5 月 18 日午前 9:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-highlighting-of-group-mentions-in-markdown-preview/41184/12 "2016-05-18T09:13:35Z")
Sure @techapj can you add this to your list to test maybe next week, can we repro with dashes in the group name?
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [2016 年 5 月 22 日午後 1:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-highlighting-of-group-mentions-in-markdown-preview/41184/13 "2016-05-22T13:16:43Z")
This was a legit issue. The issue was: group with name `discourse` was getting highlighted but group with name `Discourse` was not getting highlighted, i.e. mixed case group names were not getting highlighted.
Fixed via:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f387dfe2263ef198701d8876977881ce99fe385c](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f387dfe2263ef198701d8876977881ce99fe385c)
Thanks for reporting this issue @rriemann 👍
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [2016 年 5 月 22 日午後 1:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-highlighting-of-group-mentions-in-markdown-preview/41184/14 "2016-05-22T13:16:53Z")