Stops syntax highlighting if template tag is prefixed with space character

[lukejacksonn]

Here is an example of a template tagged with html and no space before an assignment to a variable. Syntax hightlighting and formatting work perfectly:

But as soon as prettier formats the variable assignment (adding a space before the html tagged template) then syntax highlighting ceases to work:

I've tried removing all other extensions that might conflict with lit-html to see if that is the issue, but not found anything yet. Is anyone else seeing or has seen this before?

[Julienng]

Hi, I have the same problem

my code :

code with syntax highlight working :

[MarshallCB]

I was having the same problem for a few months, but I was able to get it working by disabling another JS syntax highlighter I had installed. In my case it was Babel JavaScript.