diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/SyntaxHighlighter/SyntaxHighlighter.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/SyntaxHighlighter/SyntaxHighlighter.cpp
index 29bd0fdcfa..48759ff842 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/SyntaxHighlighter/SyntaxHighlighter.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/SyntaxHighlighter/SyntaxHighlighter.cpp
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2021, Ali Mohammad Pur <mpfard@serenityos.org>
+ * Copyright (c) 2021, Max Wipfli <mail@maxwipfli.ch>
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
  */
 
+#include <AK/Debug.h>
 #include <LibWeb/HTML/Parser/HTMLTokenizer.h>
 #include <LibWeb/HTML/SyntaxHighlighter/SyntaxHighlighter.h>
 
@@ -30,13 +32,15 @@ bool SyntaxHighlighter::is_navigatable(void*) const
     return false;
 }
 
-void SyntaxHighlighter::rehighlight(const Palette& palette)
+void SyntaxHighlighter::rehighlight(Palette const& palette)
 {
+    dbgln_if(SYNTAX_HIGHLIGHTING_DEBUG, "(HTML::SyntaxHighlighter) starting rehighlight");
     (void)palette;
     auto text = m_client->get_text();
 
     Vector<GUI::TextDocumentSpan> spans;
     auto highlight = [&](auto start_line, auto start_column, auto end_line, auto end_column, Gfx::TextAttributes attributes, AugmentedTokenKind kind) {
+        dbgln_if(SYNTAX_HIGHLIGHTING_DEBUG, "(HTML::SyntaxHighlighter) highlighting ({}-{}) to ({}-{}) with color {}", start_line, start_column, end_line, end_column, attributes.color);
         spans.empend(
             GUI::TextRange {
                 { start_line, start_column },
@@ -57,6 +61,7 @@ void SyntaxHighlighter::rehighlight(const Palette& palette)
         auto token = tokenizer.next_token();
         if (!token.has_value())
             break;
+        dbgln_if(SYNTAX_HIGHLIGHTING_DEBUG, "(HTML::SyntaxHighlighter) got token of type {}", token->to_string());
 
         if (token->is_start_tag()) {
             if (token->tag_name() == "script"sv) {
@@ -124,6 +129,13 @@ void SyntaxHighlighter::rehighlight(const Palette& palette)
         }
     }
 
+    if constexpr (SYNTAX_HIGHLIGHTING_DEBUG) {
+        dbgln("(HTML::SyntaxHighlighter) list of all spans:");
+        for (auto& span : spans)
+            dbgln("{}, {}", span.range, span.attributes.color);
+        dbgln("(HTML::SyntaxHighlighter) end of list");
+    }
+
     m_client->do_set_spans(move(spans));
     m_has_brace_buddies = false;
     highlight_matching_token_pair();
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/SyntaxHighlighter/SyntaxHighlighter.h b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/SyntaxHighlighter/SyntaxHighlighter.h
index 067c3c6677..6d412c940a 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/SyntaxHighlighter/SyntaxHighlighter.h
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/SyntaxHighlighter/SyntaxHighlighter.h
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ public:
     virtual bool is_navigatable(void*) const override;
 
     virtual Syntax::Language language() const override { return Syntax::Language::HTML; }
-    virtual void rehighlight(const Palette&) override;
+    virtual void rehighlight(Palette const&) override;
 
 protected:
     virtual Vector<MatchingTokenPair> matching_token_pairs() const override;