2007-01-25

CSS syntax highlighter

Checking out the JavaScript drawing program example called Doodle at the webreference.com section on JavaScript Programming, I found this bit of CSS that does syntax highlighting: SyntaxHighlighter.css [http://www.webreference.com/css/SyntaxHighlighter.css]

See also the Doodle Javascript programming example provided by WebReference for use of these style classes. Nice bit of work.

Here is a trivial example of the HTML to use of some of SyntaxHighlighter.css classes [from the example article, page 3]:

<div style="width: 700px;">
<textarea name="code" class="javascript" cols="60" rows="10"> 

<P class=code>&lt;script src="core.js" 
type=text/javascript&gt;&lt;/script&gt;<BR>&lt;script src="graphics.js" 
type=text/javascript&gt;&lt;/script&gt;<BR>&lt;script src="canvas.js" 
type=text/javascript&gt;&lt;/script&gt;<BR>&lt;script 
type=text/javascript&gt;<BR>var canvas = null;<BR>function initCanvas() 
{<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;canvas = new 
Canvas($('theCanvas'));<BR>}<BR>window.setTimeout(initCanvas, 
10);<BR>&lt;/script&gt;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;div id="theFrame" 
class="CanvasFrame"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;div id="theCanvas" 
class="Canvas"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;<BR>&lt;/div&gt;</P>

</textarea>
</div>

Other examples occur in the article.

This CSS seems to make a nice complement to the PHP syntax highlighter blogged about elsewhere.