diff --git a/system/helpers/text_helper.php b/system/helpers/text_helper.php
index 842a31d..6e9ea57 100644
--- a/system/helpers/text_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/text_helper.php
@@ -300,9 +300,9 @@
 
 		// Replace any existing PHP tags to temporary markers so they don't accidentally
 		// break the string out of PHP, and thus, thwart the highlighting.
-
 		$str = str_replace(array('<?', '?>', '<%', '%>', '\\', '</script>'),
-							array('phptagopen', 'phptagclose', 'asptagopen', 'asptagclose', 'backslashtmp', 'scriptclose'), $str);
+					array('phptagopen', 'phptagclose', 'asptagopen', 'asptagclose', 'backslashtmp', 'scriptclose'),
+					$str);
 
 		// The highlight_string function requires that the text be surrounded
 		// by PHP tags, which we will remove later
@@ -311,25 +311,15 @@
 		// All the magic happens here, baby!
 		$str = highlight_string($str, TRUE);
 
-		// Prior to PHP 5, the highligh function used icky <font> tags
-		// so we'll replace them with <span> tags.
-
-		if (abs(PHP_VERSION) < 5)
-		{
-			$str = str_replace(array('<font ', '</font>'), array('<span ', '</span>'), $str);
-			$str = preg_replace('#color="(.*?)"#', 'style="color: \\1"', $str);
-		}
-
 		// Remove our artificially added PHP, and the syntax highlighting that came with it
 		$str = preg_replace('/<span style="color: #([A-Z0-9]+)">&lt;\?php(&nbsp;| )/i', '<span style="color: #$1">', $str);
 		$str = preg_replace('/(<span style="color: #[A-Z0-9]+">.*?)\?&gt;<\/span>\n<\/span>\n<\/code>/is', "$1</span>\n</span>\n</code>", $str);
 		$str = preg_replace('/<span style="color: #[A-Z0-9]+"\><\/span>/i', '', $str);
 
 		// Replace our markers back to PHP tags.
-		$str = str_replace(array('phptagopen', 'phptagclose', 'asptagopen', 'asptagclose', 'backslashtmp', 'scriptclose'),
-							array('&lt;?', '?&gt;', '&lt;%', '%&gt;', '\\', '&lt;/script&gt;'), $str);
-
-		return $str;
+		return str_replace(array('phptagopen', 'phptagclose', 'asptagopen', 'asptagclose', 'backslashtmp', 'scriptclose'),
+					array('&lt;?', '?&gt;', '&lt;%', '%&gt;', '\\', '&lt;/script&gt;'),
+					$str);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -544,4 +534,4 @@
 }
 
 /* End of file text_helper.php */
-/* Location: ./system/helpers/text_helper.php */
\ No newline at end of file
+/* Location: ./system/helpers/text_helper.php */