diff --git a/doc/compress.html b/doc/compress.html
index abcb207ac1a60effebef6595a4e0bb4a8f28d685..19639903a3f619128234d9620b2986d4b98d2d3c 100644
--- a/doc/compress.html
+++ b/doc/compress.html
@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@
           <option value="http://codemirror.net/mode/tiddlywiki/tiddlywiki.js">tiddlywiki.js</option>
           <option value="http://codemirror.net/mode/tiki/tiki.js">tiki.js</option>
           <option value="http://codemirror.net/mode/toml/toml.js">toml.js</option>
+          <option value="http://codemirror.net/mode/tornado/tornado.js">tornado.js</option>
           <option value="http://codemirror.net/mode/turtle/turtle.js">turtle.js</option>
           <option value="http://codemirror.net/mode/vb/vb.js">vb.js</option>
           <option value="http://codemirror.net/mode/vbscript/vbscript.js">vbscript.js</option>
diff --git a/mode/index.html b/mode/index.html
index f8dc20ec3e11753ff6202d86b57b710a4cc23bcf..bfbe44700528ac859530fbad424cb3ce6a7701b6 100644
--- a/mode/index.html
+++ b/mode/index.html
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ option.</p>
       <li><a href="tiddlywiki/index.html">Tiddlywiki</a></li>
       <li><a href="tiki/index.html">Tiki wiki</a></li>
       <li><a href="toml/index.html">TOML</a></li>
+      <li><a href="tornado/index.html">Tornado</a> (templating language)</li>
       <li><a href="turtle/index.html">Turtle</a></li>
       <li><a href="vb/index.html">VB.NET</a></li>
       <li><a href="vbscript/index.html">VBScript</a></li>
diff --git a/mode/meta.js b/mode/meta.js
index 81efdcf433efb7b0757edfc07ff629160881e6f2..cee33e542203956d746433c754257a58ba1ecd1b 100644
--- a/mode/meta.js
+++ b/mode/meta.js
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@
     {name: "TiddlyWiki ", mime: "text/x-tiddlywiki", mode: "tiddlywiki"},
     {name: "Tiki wiki", mime: "text/tiki", mode: "tiki"},
     {name: "TOML", mime: "text/x-toml", mode: "toml"},
+    {name: "Tornado", mime: "text/x-tornado", mode: "tornado"},
     {name: "Turtle", mime: "text/turtle", mode: "turtle", ext: ["ttl"]},
     {name: "TypeScript", mime: "application/typescript", mode: "javascript", ext: ["ts"]},
     {name: "VB.NET", mime: "text/x-vb", mode: "vb", ext: ["vb"]},
diff --git a/mode/tornado/index.html b/mode/tornado/index.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1599fca553555bb3ba3c58233961646945723f14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mode/tornado/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+<!doctype html>
+
+<title>CodeMirror: Tornado template mode</title>
+<meta charset="utf-8"/>
+<link rel=stylesheet href="../../doc/docs.css">
+
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../lib/codemirror.css">
+<script src="../../lib/codemirror.js"></script>
+<script src="../../addon/mode/overlay.js"></script>
+<script src="../xml/xml.js"></script>
+<script src="../htmlmixed/htmlmixed.js"></script>
+<script src="tornado.js"></script>
+<style type="text/css">.CodeMirror {border-top: 1px solid black; border-bottom: 1px solid black;}</style>
+<div id=nav>
+  <a href="http://codemirror.net"><img id=logo src="../../doc/logo.png"></a>
+
+  <ul>
+    <li><a href="../../index.html">Home</a>
+    <li><a href="../../doc/manual.html">Manual</a>
+    <li><a href="https://github.com/marijnh/codemirror">Code</a>
+  </ul>
+  <ul>
+    <li><a href="../index.html">Language modes</a>
+    <li><a class=active href="#">Tornado</a>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<article>
+<h2>Tornado template mode</h2>
+<form><textarea id="code" name="code">
+<!doctype html>
+<html>
+    <head>
+        <title>My Tornado web application</title>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        <h1>
+            {{ title }}
+        </h1>
+        <ul class="my-list">
+            {% for item in items %}
+                <li>{% item.name %}</li>
+            {% empty %}
+                <li>You have no items in your list.</li>
+            {% endfor %}
+        </ul>
+    </body>
+</html>
+</textarea></form>
+
+    <script>
+      var editor = CodeMirror.fromTextArea(document.getElementById("code"), {
+        lineNumbers: true,
+        mode: "tornado",
+        indentUnit: 4,
+        indentWithTabs: true
+      });
+    </script>
+
+    <p>Mode for HTML with embedded Tornado template markup.</p>
+
+    <p><strong>MIME types defined:</strong> <code>text/x-tornado</code></p>
+  </article>
diff --git a/mode/tornado/tornado.js b/mode/tornado/tornado.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed878cfabde6c1bf04832f0928ea058b11a7319c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mode/tornado/tornado.js
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+// CodeMirror, copyright (c) by Marijn Haverbeke and others
+// Distributed under an MIT license: http://codemirror.net/LICENSE
+
+(function(mod) {
+  if (typeof exports == "object" && typeof module == "object") // CommonJS
+    mod(require("../../lib/codemirror"), require("../htmlmixed/htmlmixed"),
+        require("../../addon/mode/overlay"));
+  else if (typeof define == "function" && define.amd) // AMD
+    define(["../../lib/codemirror", "../htmlmixed/htmlmixed",
+            "../../addon/mode/overlay"], mod);
+  else // Plain browser env
+    mod(CodeMirror);
+})(function(CodeMirror) {
+  "use strict";
+
+  CodeMirror.defineMode("tornado:inner", function() {
+    var keywords = ["block", "for", "in", "true", "false",
+                    "none", "self", "super", "if", "end", "as", "not", "and",
+                    "else", "import", "with", "without", "context",
+                    "try", "except", "put", "escape", "xhtml_escape", "url_escape",
+                    "json_encode", "squeeze", "linkify", "datetime",
+                    "extends", "include", "load", "length", "comment",
+                    "pass", "while", "set", "import", "from",
+                    "autoescape", "raw", "module"];
+    keywords = new RegExp("^((" + keywords.join(")|(") + "))\\b");
+
+    function tokenBase (stream, state) {
+      stream.eatWhile(/[^\{]/);
+      var ch = stream.next();
+      if (ch == "{") {
+        if (ch = stream.eat(/\{|%|#/)) {
+          state.tokenize = inTag(ch);
+          return "tag";
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    function inTag (close) {
+      if (close == "{") {
+        close = "}";
+      }
+      return function (stream, state) {
+        var ch = stream.next();
+        if ((ch == close) && stream.eat("}")) {
+          state.tokenize = tokenBase;
+          return "tag";
+        }
+        if (stream.match(keywords)) {
+          return "keyword";
+        }
+        return close == "#" ? "comment" : "string";
+      };
+    }
+    return {
+      startState: function () {
+        return {tokenize: tokenBase};
+      },
+      token: function (stream, state) {
+        return state.tokenize(stream, state);
+      }
+    };
+  });
+
+  CodeMirror.defineMode("tornado", function(config) {
+    var htmlBase = CodeMirror.getMode(config, "text/html");
+    var tornadoInner = CodeMirror.getMode(config, "tornado:inner");
+    return CodeMirror.overlayMode(htmlBase, tornadoInner);
+  });
+
+  CodeMirror.defineMIME("text/x-tornado", "tornado");
+});