Highlight.js

highlight.js: Popular Syntax Highlighter for Web Pages

highlight.js is a popular syntax highlighter for web pages. It can detect over 150 languages and automatically highlights code snippets with color coding and formatting. It's lightweight, easy to integrate, and has no dependencies.

What is Highlight.js?

highlight.js is an open-source syntax highlighter library for the web. It can detect over 150 languages including C, C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, XML, and many more. When integrated into a web page, it will automatically highlight code snippets by color coding the text and formatting it.

Some key features of highlight.js include:

• Lightweight library with no external dependencies
• Automatic language detection of code snippets
• Supports over 150 programming & markup languages
• Color coding and text formatting to improve code readability
• Options for custom themes and styles
• Easy to integrate into any web page by just including the JS and CSS files
• Well-documented API for advanced configuration
• Active development community on GitHub

Highlight.js is commonly used to improve the presentation of technical documentation sites, developer blogs, tutorial sites, and more. It takes code snippets that would otherwise be plain text and makes them easier to read and understand. With customizable themes, it also allows styling code to match a site's design.

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