# Syntax highlighting not working?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/syntax-highlighting-not-working/52992
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [November 17, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/syntax-highlighting-not-working/52992 "2016-11-17T03:28:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![peternlewis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/peternlewis/32/108888_2.png) [@peternlewis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peternlewis)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/syntax-highlighting-not-working/52992/1 "2016-11-17T03:28:08Z")

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Syntax highlighting in code blocks seems to have stopped working on [my site](https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/).

Using a code block with a specified language (eg “bash”) like this:

```bash
echo "test"

```

I get nice formatting here, and I have previously, but now (probably with the 1.6.6 or 1.6.7 updates), the highlighting stopped working.

Is there some new setting I need to enable? My settings look like this:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/a/dac0e0f1359b4d7ce0fc4a446b297c008a91c7ac.png)

It doesn’t seem to matter what language, bash, perl, applescript all do no highlighting.

Any ideas what’s wrong?

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2016, 3:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/syntax-highlighting-not-working/52992/2 "2016-11-17T03:31:35Z")

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Maybe regression? @sam would need to take a peek.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2016, 4:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/syntax-highlighting-not-working/52992/3 "2016-11-17T04:07:56Z")

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Are there any plugins involved on your site, I recall there was a plugin at some point that broke this.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/syntax-highlighting-not-working/52992/4 "2016-11-17T04:20:18Z")

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If only we had some kind of “[safe mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/53504?silent=true)” people could invoke on their Discourse 🙂

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### Author: ![peternlewis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/peternlewis/32/108888_2.png) [@peternlewis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peternlewis)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2016, 6:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/syntax-highlighting-not-working/52992/5 "2016-11-17T06:08:21Z")

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OK, I went to get the versions of the plug ins (I only have a couple, and all were up to date when I updated to 1.6.7, but discourse-solved had an update, and updating that resolved the problem. So I guess that was it, or the update kicked whatever was unhappy.

Resolved.

Thanks.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2016, 6:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/syntax-highlighting-not-working/52992/6 "2016-11-17T06:56:00Z")

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