How to implement syntax highlight like SO?

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Best to be implemented in javascript.

And easy to use.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:29

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Stack Overflow uses Prettify from Google.

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

edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:29

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answered Oct 23 '09 at 06:54

Greg Hewgill

Prettify need class="prettyprint" to be add to
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 or ,how to let wmd do this?
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– Mask Oct 23 '09 at 07:10
See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1611861/how-to-combine-wmd-and-prettify-like-so – Greg Hewgill Oct 23 '09 at 07:39

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 18 '21 at 12:39

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SO are using the WMD editor.

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

edited Jan 18 '21 at 12:39

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answered Oct 23 '09 at 06:50

Eli Bendersky

Prettify need class="prettyprint" to be add to
```
 or ,how to let wmd do this?
```
– Mask Oct 23 '09 at 07:15

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 23 '09 at 06:53

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

answered Oct 23 '09 at 06:53

Nick Dandoulakis

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