Syntax highlighting is necessarily useful, especially bloggers who want show a basic code examples to readers. Without syntax highlighting, readers might find it hard to read, and a lot harder to follow. By using syntax highlighting, it has closed these barries.
There are many free syntax highlighting on the net. These syntax highlighting scripts are written by Javascripts, Phyton, Ruby, etc, however Javascripts are used widely for syntax highlighting scripts.
Now, I want to show you some best syntax highlighting that I have experienced.
1. SyntaxHighlighter
I could say that this syntax highlighting is the most common use for all of us as it supports a lot of different languages.
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2. GeSHi – Generic Syntax Highlighter
GeSHi is a syntax highlighting which support PHP5, and Windows. This syntax highlighting support most of coding languages.
GeShi syntax highlighting tools seem to be simple but this syntax highlighting tool can support wide range of popular languages, and you can easy to add new language to this syntax highlighting tool.
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3. Google Code Prettify
Google Code Prettify a Javascript module and CSS file that allows syntax highlighting of source code snippets in an html page. It is the scripts which powers the site code.google.com.
Click here to download
4. beautyOfCode
beautyOfCode is a jQuery plugin for syntax highlighting. It uses the syntax highlighting scripts by Alex Gorbatchev and makes it more XHTML-compliant.
5. Quick Highlighter
This is a quick and easy syntax highlighting tool that can highlight many coding languages with variety of styles.
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6. hilite.me
This is another easy-to-use syntax highlighting tool that can highlight all coding languages into many different styles.
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