diff --git a/modules/markup/jupyter/jupyter.go b/modules/markup/jupyter/jupyter.go
index a02eb4a0287..8acaf64d0d1 100644
--- a/modules/markup/jupyter/jupyter.go
+++ b/modules/markup/jupyter/jupyter.go
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ func renderCellCode(output htmlutil.HTMLWriter, cell Cell, language string) erro
 
 		// Highlight code
 		lexer := highlight.DetectChromaLexerByFileName("", language)
-		output.WriteFormat(`<div class="cell-right cell-input"><pre><code class="chroma language-%s">`, strings.ToLower(language))
+		output.WriteFormat(`<div class="cell-right cell-input"><pre><code class="chroma language-%s">`, strings.ToLower(lexer.Config().Name))
 		output.WriteHTML(highlight.RenderCodeByLexer(lexer, source))
 		output.WriteHTML("</code></pre></div>")
 	}
diff --git a/modules/markup/jupyter/jupyter_test.go b/modules/markup/jupyter/jupyter_test.go
index 61d362da987..bdea55308cf 100644
--- a/modules/markup/jupyter/jupyter_test.go
+++ b/modules/markup/jupyter/jupyter_test.go
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ func TestIntegrationAndSanitization(t *testing.T) {
 	maliciousNotebook := `{
 		"nbformat": 4,
 		"nbformat_minor": 2,
-		"metadata": {},
+		"metadata": {"language_info":{"name":"any lang"}},
 		"cells": [
 			{
 				"cell_type": "code",
@@ -295,8 +295,8 @@ func TestIntegrationAndSanitization(t *testing.T) {
 		<div class="cell-line">
 			<div class="cell-left cell-prompt">In [1]:</div>
 			<div class="cell-right cell-input">
-				<pre><code class="chroma language-python">
-					<span class="n">a</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1</span>
+				<pre><code class="chroma language-fallback">
+					a=1
 				</code></pre>
 			</div>
 		</div>