# Sql syntax highlighting is unidentifiable

**URL:** <https://forum.gitea.com/t/sql-syntax-highlighting-is-unidentifiable/1980>\
**Category:** Install/Maintain/Configure\
**Created:** [March 6, 2020, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/sql-syntax-highlighting-is-unidentifiable/1980 "2020-03-06T10:37:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![peterpanmj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@peterpanmj](https://forum.gitea.com/u/peterpanmj)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/sql-syntax-highlighting-is-unidentifiable/1980/1 "2020-03-06T10:37:31Z")

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Sql syntax hightling is only a little bettter than plain text. I am wondering is there a way to use a richer rendering style  
git version 2.25  
Gitea version 1.11.1  
Windows Server 2008  
database sqlite

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**Author:** ![jolheiser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/jolheiser/32/4807_2.png) [@jolheiser](https://forum.gitea.com/u/jolheiser)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/sql-syntax-highlighting-is-unidentifiable/1980/2 "2020-03-06T17:13:27Z")

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With our current syntax highlighter ([highlight.js](https://highlightjs.org/)) I don’t know if there’s much more we can do unless there are updates to it to make the highlighting better.

We have some issues open regarding moving to different syntax highlighter, however currently there is no one working on it that I am aware of.