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app/scss/main.scss

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ div.highlight {
     padding: 10px;
     overflow: auto;
     display: block;
+    margin: 20px 0;
 }
 
 .box {

app/source.py

@@ -88,6 +88,6 @@ async def markdownify(
     # Handle custom emoji
     tags.extend(emoji.tags(content))
 
-    content = markdown(content, extensions=["mdx_linkify", "fenced_code", "codehilite"])
+    content = markdown(content, extensions=["mdx_linkify", "fenced_code"])
 
     return content, tags, mentioned_actors

app/utils/highlight.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from functools import lru_cache
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup  # type: ignore
 from pygments import highlight as phighlight  # type: ignore
 from pygments.formatters import HtmlFormatter  # type: ignore
+from pygments.lexers import get_lexer_by_name  # type: ignore
 from pygments.lexers import guess_lexer  # type: ignore
 
 from app.config import CODE_HIGHLIGHTING_THEME
@@ -18,15 +19,29 @@ def highlight(html: str) -> str:
     for code in soup.find_all("code"):
         if not code.parent.name == "pre":
             continue
+
+        # Replace <br> tags with line breaks (Mastodon sends code like this)
         code_content = (
             code.encode_contents().decode().replace("<br>", "\n").replace("<br/>", "\n")
         )
+
+        # If this comes from a microblog.pub instance we may have the language
+        # in the class name
+        if "class" in code.attrs and code.attrs["class"][0].startswith("language-"):
+            try:
+                lexer = get_lexer_by_name(
+                    code.attrs["class"][0].removeprefix("language-")
+                )
+            except Exception:
                 lexer = guess_lexer(code_content)
-        tag = BeautifulSoup(
+        else:
+            lexer = guess_lexer(code_content)
+
+        # Replace the code with Pygment output
+        code.parent.replaceWith(
+            BeautifulSoup(
                 phighlight(code_content, lexer, _FORMATTER), "html5lib"
             ).body.next
-        pre = code.parent
-        pre.replaceWith(tag)
-    out = soup.body
-    out.name = "div"
-    return str(out)
+        )
+
+    return soup.body.encode_contents().decode()