# Code highlighter on website

**URL:** https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/code-highlighter-on-website/3622
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [November 21, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/code-highlighter-on-website/3622 "2019-11-21T14:07:28Z")
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### Author: ![rdyar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/rdyar/32/710_2.png) [@rdyar](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/rdyar)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/code-highlighter-on-website/3622/2 "2019-11-21T17:48:33Z")

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the css for highlighting is usually something you have to add yourself - rouge will create all the classes, but if you don’t have the css for those classes nothing will happen.

here is a link to one example of the css that would probably work:

> <https://github.com/jwarby/jekyll-pygments-themes/blob/master/github.css>

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