diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index d4a1a057..6de21fe5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1099,6 +1099,24 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pulldown-cmark"
+version = "0.12.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f86ba2052aebccc42cbbb3ed234b8b13ce76f75c3551a303cb2bcffcff12bb14"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags",
+ "memchr",
+ "pulldown-cmark-escape",
+ "unicase",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "pulldown-cmark-escape"
+version = "0.11.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "007d8adb5ddab6f8e3f491ac63566a7d5002cc7ed73901f72057943fa71ae1ae"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "quick-error"
 version = "1.2.3"
@@ -1172,6 +1190,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
  "percent-encoding",
  "pretty_env_logger",
+ "pulldown-cmark",
  "regex",
  "rinja",
  "route-recognizer",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2fe14563..c161c28d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ rss = "2.0.7"
 arc-swap = "1.7.1"
 serde_json_path = "0.6.7"
 async-recursion = "1.1.1"
+pulldown-cmark = { version = "0.12.0", features = ["simd", "html"], default-features = false }
 
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/src/utils.rs b/src/utils.rs
index 170f53db..46095b29 100644
--- a/src/utils.rs
+++ b/src/utils.rs
@@ -720,7 +720,15 @@ pub async fn parse_post(post: &Value) -> Post {
 			get_setting("REDLIB_PUSHSHIFT_FRONTEND").unwrap_or_else(|| String::from(crate::config::DEFAULT_PUSHSHIFT_FRONTEND)),
 		)
 	} else {
-		rewrite_urls(&val(post, "selftext_html"))
+		let selftext = val(post, "selftext");
+		if selftext.contains("```") {
+			let mut html_output = String::new();
+			let parser = pulldown_cmark::Parser::new(&selftext);
+			pulldown_cmark::html::push_html(&mut html_output, parser);
+			rewrite_urls(&html_output)
+		} else {
+			rewrite_urls(&val(post, "selftext_html"))
+		}
 	};
 
 	// Build a post using data parsed from Reddit post API
diff --git a/static/style.css b/static/style.css
index a9d893a3..76b55ddb 100644
--- a/static/style.css
+++ b/static/style.css
@@ -1199,6 +1199,13 @@ a.search_subreddit:hover {
     overflow-wrap: anywhere;
 }
 
+.post_body pre {
+    background: var(--background);
+    overflow-x: auto;
+    margin: 10px 0;
+    padding: 10px;
+}
+
 .post_body img {
     max-width: 100%;
     display: block;