diff --git a/src/markup/engine/__tests__/remarkup/backticks-whitespace.txt b/src/markup/engine/__tests__/remarkup/backticks-whitespace.txt
--- a/src/markup/engine/__tests__/remarkup/backticks-whitespace.txt
+++ b/src/markup/engine/__tests__/remarkup/backticks-whitespace.txt
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
-```x``` 
+```x```
 
 ```
 y
-``` 
+```
 ~~~~~~~~~~
-<div class="remarkup-code-block" data-code-lang="php" data-sigil="remarkup-code-block"><pre class="remarkup-code"><span class="no">x</span></pre></div>
+<div class="remarkup-code-block" data-code-lang="text" data-sigil="remarkup-code-block"><pre class="remarkup-code">x</pre></div>
 
 
 
-<div class="remarkup-code-block" data-code-lang="php" data-sigil="remarkup-code-block"><pre class="remarkup-code"><span class="no">y</span></pre></div>
+<div class="remarkup-code-block" data-code-lang="text" data-sigil="remarkup-code-block"><pre class="remarkup-code">y</pre></div>
 ~~~~~~~~~~
   x
 
diff --git a/src/markup/engine/__tests__/remarkup/just-backticks.txt b/src/markup/engine/__tests__/remarkup/just-backticks.txt
--- a/src/markup/engine/__tests__/remarkup/just-backticks.txt
+++ b/src/markup/engine/__tests__/remarkup/just-backticks.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ```
 ~~~~~~~~~~
-<div class="remarkup-code-block" data-code-lang="php" data-sigil="remarkup-code-block"><pre class="remarkup-code"></pre></div>
+<div class="remarkup-code-block" data-code-lang="text" data-sigil="remarkup-code-block"><pre class="remarkup-code"></pre></div>
 ~~~~~~~~~~
   
diff --git a/src/markup/engine/__tests__/remarkup/tick-block-multi.txt b/src/markup/engine/__tests__/remarkup/tick-block-multi.txt
--- a/src/markup/engine/__tests__/remarkup/tick-block-multi.txt
+++ b/src/markup/engine/__tests__/remarkup/tick-block-multi.txt
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@
 more code```
 
 ~~~~~~~~~~
-<div class="remarkup-code-block" data-code-lang="php" data-sigil="remarkup-code-block"><pre class="remarkup-code"><span class="no">code</span>
+<div class="remarkup-code-block" data-code-lang="text" data-sigil="remarkup-code-block"><pre class="remarkup-code">code
 
-<span class="no">more</span> <span class="no">code</span>
+more code
 
-<span class="no">more</span> <span class="no">code</span></pre></div>
+more code</pre></div>
 ~~~~~~~~~~
   code
   
diff --git a/src/markup/engine/__tests__/remarkup/tick-block.txt b/src/markup/engine/__tests__/remarkup/tick-block.txt
--- a/src/markup/engine/__tests__/remarkup/tick-block.txt
+++ b/src/markup/engine/__tests__/remarkup/tick-block.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ```code```
 ~~~~~~~~~~
-<div class="remarkup-code-block" data-code-lang="php" data-sigil="remarkup-code-block"><pre class="remarkup-code"><span class="no">code</span></pre></div>
+<div class="remarkup-code-block" data-code-lang="text" data-sigil="remarkup-code-block"><pre class="remarkup-code">code</pre></div>
 ~~~~~~~~~~
   code
diff --git a/src/markup/engine/remarkup/blockrule/PhutilRemarkupCodeBlockRule.php b/src/markup/engine/remarkup/blockrule/PhutilRemarkupCodeBlockRule.php
--- a/src/markup/engine/remarkup/blockrule/PhutilRemarkupCodeBlockRule.php
+++ b/src/markup/engine/remarkup/blockrule/PhutilRemarkupCodeBlockRule.php
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
       if (!$lang) {
         $lang = nonempty(
           $this->getEngine()->getConfig('phutil.codeblock.language-default'),
-          'php');
+          'text');
       }
       $options['lang'] = $lang;
     }