diff --git a/widgets/rendererWidget/renderObjectHighLighter.cc b/widgets/rendererWidget/renderObjectHighLighter.cc
index a4c18bb80bd5ee4f11ad363395004611701316fe..23865be69da5ed60b36ea6bc8243ccbd3009f4d2 100644
--- a/widgets/rendererWidget/renderObjectHighLighter.cc
+++ b/widgets/rendererWidget/renderObjectHighLighter.cc
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ void RenderObjectHighlighter::init() {
   typeFormat_.setFontWeight(QFont::Bold);
 
   // Types
-  typePatterns_ << "in" << "out" << "mat3" << "mat4" << "vec2" << "vec3" << "vec4" << "float" << "double" <<"uniform" ;
+  typePatterns_ << "in" << "out" << "mat3" << "mat4" << "vec2" << "vec3" << "vec4" << "float" << "double" <<"uniform" << "layout" ;
 
   update();
 }
@@ -112,6 +112,11 @@ void RenderObjectHighlighter::update() {
   rule.format =  defineFormat_;
   highlightingRules_.append(rule);
 
+  // version rule
+  rule.pattern = QRegExp("#version.*");
+  rule.format =  defineFormat_;
+  highlightingRules_.append(rule);
+
   // Rule for single line comments
   rule.pattern = QRegExp("//[^\n]*");
   rule.format = singleLineCommentFormat_;