From 0327da050f809ff6502ef611a0f77a962dbc8a4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B8rn=20Erik=20Pedersen?=
 <bjorn.erik.pedersen@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2022 10:44:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tpl/transform: Fix it when template.HTML is passes as option
 to Hightlight

Fixes #9591
---
 markup/highlight/config.go      | 9 ++++++---
 tpl/transform/transform_test.go | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/markup/highlight/config.go b/markup/highlight/config.go
index 3204ce195..1142c5e11 100644
--- a/markup/highlight/config.go
+++ b/markup/highlight/config.go
@@ -122,10 +122,13 @@ func applyOptions(opts interface{}, cfg *Config) error {
 	switch vv := opts.(type) {
 	case map[string]interface{}:
 		return applyOptionsFromMap(vv, cfg)
-	case string:
-		return applyOptionsFromString(vv, cfg)
+	default:
+		s, err := cast.ToStringE(opts)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		return applyOptionsFromString(s, cfg)
 	}
-	return nil
 }
 
 func applyOptionsFromString(opts string, cfg *Config) error {
diff --git a/tpl/transform/transform_test.go b/tpl/transform/transform_test.go
index 289674bf1..e52e0046d 100644
--- a/tpl/transform/transform_test.go
+++ b/tpl/transform/transform_test.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ package transform_test
 
 import (
 	"html/template"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/gohugoio/hugo/common/loggers"
@@ -81,6 +82,8 @@ func TestHighlight(t *testing.T) {
 		// Issue #4179
 		{`<Foo attr=" &lt; "></Foo>`, "xml", "", `&amp;lt;`},
 		{tstNoStringer{}, "go", "", false},
+		// Issue #9591
+		{strings.Repeat("AAA	\n", 10), "bash", template.HTML("linenos=true,noClasses=false"), "line"},
 	} {
 
 		result, err := ns.Highlight(test.s, test.lang, test.opts)