How to implement syntax highlight like SO?

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Best to be implemented in javascript.

And easy to use.

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-20 10:29:30Z

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Stack Overflow uses Prettify from Google.

See this question (on meta) for more discussion about this.

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answered Oct 23, 2009 at 6:54

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Mask Over a year ago

Prettify need class="prettyprint" to be add to <pre> or <code>,how to let wmd do this?

Greg Hewgill Over a year ago

See: stackoverflow.com/questions/1611861/…

Community · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-18 12:39:36Z

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SO are using the WMD editor.

Googling for "javascript syntax highlighter" also brings up a lot of useful stuff.

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Prettify need class="prettyprint" to be add to <pre> or <code>,how to let wmd do this?

Nick Dandoulakis · Accepted Answer · 2009-10-23 06:53:13Z

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You can check out this very good code syntax highlighter project: SyntaxHighlighter

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