> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://plain-mattvagni-patch-1.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Syntax highlighting

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  ![Syntax highlighting within Plain](https://mintlify.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/plain-mattvagni-patch-1/public/images/syntax-highlighting-introduction.png)
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Within Plain, you can quickly and easily share code with customers using full syntax highlighting for all common languages.

In a message use 3 backticks ` ``` ` to start a code block and then press **Shift** and **Enter** (or just **Enter** 3 times) to exit the code block.

The language will be automatically inferred but if you want to override this you can manually specify the syntax after the initial 3 back-ticks. For example:

````
```json
{ "status": 200}
```
````

will render:

```json
{ "status": 200 }
```

<Warning>Syntax highlighting is **currently** only supported in email.</Warning>