# Problems with Markdown / Syntax Highlighting

**URL:** https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/problems-with-markdown-syntax-highlighting/2628
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [February 12, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/problems-with-markdown-syntax-highlighting/2628 "2019-02-12T19:53:22Z")
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### Author: ![johannes.lichtenberg](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/johannes.lichtenberg/32/1638_2.png) [@johannes.lichtenberg](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/johannes.lichtenberg)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/problems-with-markdown-syntax-highlighting/2628/1 "2019-02-12T19:53:22Z")

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Hi,

I wanted to build a simple documentation website for my github project ([https://sirixdb.github.io](https://sirixdb.github.io)), but somehow I can’t get the Markdown syntax highlighting to work:

[https://sirixdb.github.io/low-level-api.html](https://sirixdb.github.io/low-level-api.html)

However I see a lot of CSS styles defined in the HTML-website. As, I haven’t done any frontend web development (working on the backend side), I’m a bit confused. I tried different highlighting syntaxes, but from what I read it uses Rogue as the default syntax highlighter and I specified it in the \_config.yml file.

Any help would be great 🙂

kind regards  
Johannes

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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: [February 12, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/problems-with-markdown-syntax-highlighting/2628/2 "2019-02-12T20:54:38Z")

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you probably need the css for it - it looks like it is working, there just aren’t any css styles to apply.

Here is a list of Pygments style sheets which will work with rouge, click on one like GitHub.css and load that into your css:

> **[jwarby/jekyll-pygments-themes](https://github.com/jwarby/jekyll-pygments-themes)**
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> CSS themes for Pygments syntax highlighter, ready to drop into Jekyll. Also includes a custom theme builder! - jwarby/jekyll-pygments-themes

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

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### Author: ![johannes.lichtenberg](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/johannes.lichtenberg/32/1638_2.png) [@johannes.lichtenberg](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/johannes.lichtenberg)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/problems-with-markdown-syntax-highlighting/2628/3 "2019-02-12T21:43:14Z")

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Thanks, that’s working but somehow the whole site looks like grap in comparison to the index.html page, but thanks so much 🙂