hugo/docs/content/en/functions/highlight.md

---
title: highlight
linktitle: highlight
description: Takes a string of code and language declaration and uses Chroma to return syntax-highlighted HTML.
date: 2017-02-01
publishdate: 2017-02-01
lastmod: 2017-02-01
categories: [functions]
menu:
  docs:
    parent: "functions"
keywords: [highlighting,code blocks,syntax]
signature: ["highlight INPUT LANG OPTIONS"]
workson: []
hugoversion:
relatedfuncs: []
deprecated: false
---

[`highlight` is used in Hugo's built-in `highlight` shortcode][highlight].


[highlight]: /content-management/shortcodes/#highlight
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			`title: highlight`
			`linktitle: highlight`
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Squashed 'docs/' content from commit fdea5430f git-subtree-dir: docs git-subtree-split: fdea5430f89dfd849d39212abdf5ace0a4763e5a 2019-10-21 08:22:28 +00:00			`date: 2017-02-01`
			`publishdate: 2017-02-01`
			`lastmod: 2017-02-01`
			`categories: [functions]`
			`menu:`
			`docs:`
			`parent: "functions"`
Squashed 'docs/' changes from 51c4f3184..af4b7ac5b af4b7ac5b Remove mention of Amber and Ace c841e9207 Exif docs corrections (#978) 0f82420b8 Change cache assets default example to 1 year 676dc6e12 Release 0.61.0 a1d9fb18a Merge commit '79c5d7053486f540b6219e693d5590f2c4c3937a' 1b9e675cd releaser: Add release notes to /docs for release of 0.61.0 5b95cbc8a Fixed suffixIsRemoved error in code samples (#975) 59b2c245b Fix Usage section in toc.md to consider Goldmark TOC settings fd3828673 Add link on how to configure TOC w/ Goldmark ea339f2d6 Added external learning resources including Hugo In Action book. fab502d5d Adjust release notes 269a025ef Release 0.60.1 6bff50bea Merge branch 'temp601' e15251c43 releaser: Add release notes to /docs for release of 0.60.1 690b864b9 Update use-modules.md 345ca8c36 Update syntax-highlighting.md be64af9f5 Update syntax-highlighting.md df9dead83 Update syntax-highlighting.md 1c6e6d238 Fix relnotes 0ea6b2012 Update homepagetweets.toml 2c465625d Update index.md 0025bba09 Update index.md 7417f1c05 Update index.md 9eeb8ce57 Release 0.60.0 25a711023 Merge branch 'temp60' 0c4faab0e releaser: Add release notes to /docs for release of 0.60.0 779e5108e Update installing.md 2ef1c386a Minor text improvements in README.md 41ec5a19a Reword sentence for clarity search.md ded74f098 Add Goldmark as the new default markdown handler cb55cdbb0 Update introduction.md fcaad653a Update homepage.md 7427a1fc5 Update configuration.md 8cc2c72ca tpl/collections: Allow dict to create nested structures 4538c092c Merge commit 'efc0b1bb6c6564f54d596467dbc6a18cb206954e' 90f908e7b Support Go time format strings in permalinks git-subtree-dir: docs git-subtree-split: af4b7ac5b403e392a92228e66058331905fff7dc 2019-12-15 09:35:09 +00:00			`keywords: [highlighting,code blocks,syntax]`
Squashed 'docs/' content from commit fdea5430f git-subtree-dir: docs git-subtree-split: fdea5430f89dfd849d39212abdf5ace0a4763e5a 2019-10-21 08:22:28 +00:00			`signature: ["highlight INPUT LANG OPTIONS"]`
			`workson: []`
			`hugoversion:`
			`relatedfuncs: []`
			`deprecated: false`
			`---`

			[`highlight` is used in Hugo's built-in `highlight` shortcode][highlight].


			`[highlight]: /content-management/shortcodes/#highlight`