How to add syntax highlighting to indented code blocks using github flavored markdown
Using github flavored markdown, there are three sytnax variants for a block of code:
Fenced code blocks
```js
var user = "string"
```
Indented code blocks
var user = "string"
Html blocks example 137
<pre><code>var user = <i>"string"</i>
</code></pre>
Github will also apply syntax highlighting when parsing markdown files, but I can't get it to work for indented or html blocks.
How can I tell github to run syntax highlighting or even specify a language for indented code blocks or html code blocks?
Here's a gist with a working demo of github's markdown parsing
github markdown
asked Dec 30 '18 at 22:49
KyleMitKyleMit
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Using github flavored markdown, there are three sytnax variants for a block of code:
Fenced code blocks
```js
var user = "string"
```
Indented code blocks
var user = "string"
Html blocks example 137
<pre><code>var user = <i>"string"</i>
</code></pre>
Github will also apply syntax highlighting when parsing markdown files, but I can't get it to work for indented or html blocks.
How can I tell github to run syntax highlighting or even specify a language for indented code blocks or html code blocks?
Here's a gist with a working demo of github's markdown parsing
github markdown
asked Dec 30 '18 at 22:49
KyleMitKyleMit
1,89641732
add a comment |
Using github flavored markdown, there are three sytnax variants for a block of code:
Fenced code blocks
```js
var user = "string"
```
Indented code blocks
var user = "string"
Html blocks example 137
<pre><code>var user = <i>"string"</i>
</code></pre>
Github will also apply syntax highlighting when parsing markdown files, but I can't get it to work for indented or html blocks.
How can I tell github to run syntax highlighting or even specify a language for indented code blocks or html code blocks?
Here's a gist with a working demo of github's markdown parsing
github markdown
asked Dec 30 '18 at 22:49
KyleMitKyleMit
1,89641732
Using github flavored markdown, there are three sytnax variants for a block of code:
Fenced code blocks
```js
var user = "string"
```
Indented code blocks
var user = "string"
Html blocks example 137
<pre><code>var user = <i>"string"</i>
</code></pre>
Github will also apply syntax highlighting when parsing markdown files, but I can't get it to work for indented or html blocks.
How can I tell github to run syntax highlighting or even specify a language for indented code blocks or html code blocks?
Here's a gist with a working demo of github's markdown parsing
github markdown
github markdown
asked Dec 30 '18 at 22:49
KyleMitKyleMit
1,89641732
asked Dec 30 '18 at 22:49
KyleMitKyleMit
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edited Dec 30 '18 at 23:23
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In GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec it says:
The line with the opening code fence may optionally contain some text
following the code fence; this is trimmed of leading and trailing
whitespace and called the info string. (...) The content of a code
fence is treated as literal text, not parsed as inlines. The first
word of the info string is typically used to specify the language of
the code sample, and rendered in the class attribute of the code tag.
And earlier it also says:
An indented code block has no info string.
So I think it's not possible to embed language information in indented
code blocks. To put language information inside HTML block I found
this to be working ok:
<pre lang="javascript"><code>var user = "string"
</code></pre>
Here is a short test on Github:
https://gist.github.com/ardrabczyk/179e05e0a2134389de3d270c2a10ee26
answered Dec 30 '18 at 23:24
Arkadiusz DrabczykArkadiusz Drabczyk
1,636711
Oh, sweet!! I'm a sucker for throwing samples inside<pre><code>blocks and escaping myself so I can throw in some extra<b>or<i>tags to empahsize sections within the code. This'll help bunches. Thanks!
– KyleMit
Dec 31 '18 at 1:09
Ahh, definitely answers the question, but didn't happen to solve my roundabout problem. Now that syntax highlighting is being applied to html blocks, it's sanitizing the tags inside them
– KyleMit
Dec 31 '18 at 1:16
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In GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec it says:
The line with the opening code fence may optionally contain some text
following the code fence; this is trimmed of leading and trailing
whitespace and called the info string. (...) The content of a code
fence is treated as literal text, not parsed as inlines. The first
word of the info string is typically used to specify the language of
the code sample, and rendered in the class attribute of the code tag.
And earlier it also says:
An indented code block has no info string.
So I think it's not possible to embed language information in indented
code blocks. To put language information inside HTML block I found
this to be working ok:
<pre lang="javascript"><code>var user = "string"
</code></pre>
Here is a short test on Github:
https://gist.github.com/ardrabczyk/179e05e0a2134389de3d270c2a10ee26
answered Dec 30 '18 at 23:24
Arkadiusz DrabczykArkadiusz Drabczyk
1,636711
Oh, sweet!! I'm a sucker for throwing samples inside<pre><code>blocks and escaping myself so I can throw in some extra<b>or<i>tags to empahsize sections within the code. This'll help bunches. Thanks!
– KyleMit
Dec 31 '18 at 1:09
Ahh, definitely answers the question, but didn't happen to solve my roundabout problem. Now that syntax highlighting is being applied to html blocks, it's sanitizing the tags inside them
– KyleMit
Dec 31 '18 at 1:16
add a comment |
In GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec it says:
The line with the opening code fence may optionally contain some text
following the code fence; this is trimmed of leading and trailing
whitespace and called the info string. (...) The content of a code
fence is treated as literal text, not parsed as inlines. The first
word of the info string is typically used to specify the language of
the code sample, and rendered in the class attribute of the code tag.
And earlier it also says:
An indented code block has no info string.
So I think it's not possible to embed language information in indented
code blocks. To put language information inside HTML block I found
this to be working ok:
<pre lang="javascript"><code>var user = "string"
</code></pre>
Here is a short test on Github:
https://gist.github.com/ardrabczyk/179e05e0a2134389de3d270c2a10ee26
answered Dec 30 '18 at 23:24
Arkadiusz DrabczykArkadiusz Drabczyk
1,636711
Oh, sweet!! I'm a sucker for throwing samples inside<pre><code>blocks and escaping myself so I can throw in some extra<b>or<i>tags to empahsize sections within the code. This'll help bunches. Thanks!
– KyleMit
Dec 31 '18 at 1:09
Ahh, definitely answers the question, but didn't happen to solve my roundabout problem. Now that syntax highlighting is being applied to html blocks, it's sanitizing the tags inside them
– KyleMit
Dec 31 '18 at 1:16
add a comment |
In GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec it says:
The line with the opening code fence may optionally contain some text
following the code fence; this is trimmed of leading and trailing
whitespace and called the info string. (...) The content of a code
fence is treated as literal text, not parsed as inlines. The first
word of the info string is typically used to specify the language of
the code sample, and rendered in the class attribute of the code tag.
And earlier it also says:
An indented code block has no info string.
So I think it's not possible to embed language information in indented
code blocks. To put language information inside HTML block I found
this to be working ok:
<pre lang="javascript"><code>var user = "string"
</code></pre>
Here is a short test on Github:
https://gist.github.com/ardrabczyk/179e05e0a2134389de3d270c2a10ee26
answered Dec 30 '18 at 23:24
Arkadiusz DrabczykArkadiusz Drabczyk
1,636711
In GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec it says:
The line with the opening code fence may optionally contain some text
following the code fence; this is trimmed of leading and trailing
whitespace and called the info string. (...) The content of a code
fence is treated as literal text, not parsed as inlines. The first
word of the info string is typically used to specify the language of
the code sample, and rendered in the class attribute of the code tag.
And earlier it also says:
An indented code block has no info string.
So I think it's not possible to embed language information in indented
code blocks. To put language information inside HTML block I found
this to be working ok:
<pre lang="javascript"><code>var user = "string"
</code></pre>
Here is a short test on Github:
https://gist.github.com/ardrabczyk/179e05e0a2134389de3d270c2a10ee26
answered Dec 30 '18 at 23:24
Arkadiusz DrabczykArkadiusz Drabczyk
1,636711
answered Dec 30 '18 at 23:24
Arkadiusz DrabczykArkadiusz Drabczyk
1,636711
answered Dec 30 '18 at 23:24
Arkadiusz DrabczykArkadiusz Drabczyk
1,636711
answered Dec 30 '18 at 23:24
Arkadiusz DrabczykArkadiusz Drabczyk
1,636711
1,636711
Oh, sweet!! I'm a sucker for throwing samples inside<pre><code>blocks and escaping myself so I can throw in some extra<b>or<i>tags to empahsize sections within the code. This'll help bunches. Thanks!
– KyleMit
Dec 31 '18 at 1:09
Ahh, definitely answers the question, but didn't happen to solve my roundabout problem. Now that syntax highlighting is being applied to html blocks, it's sanitizing the tags inside them
– KyleMit
Dec 31 '18 at 1:16
add a comment |
Oh, sweet!! I'm a sucker for throwing samples inside<pre><code>blocks and escaping myself so I can throw in some extra<b>or<i>tags to empahsize sections within the code. This'll help bunches. Thanks!
– KyleMit
Dec 31 '18 at 1:09
Ahh, definitely answers the question, but didn't happen to solve my roundabout problem. Now that syntax highlighting is being applied to html blocks, it's sanitizing the tags inside them
– KyleMit
Dec 31 '18 at 1:16
Oh, sweet!! I'm a sucker for throwing samples inside
<pre><code> blocks and escaping myself so I can throw in some extra <b> or <i> tags to empahsize sections within the code. This'll help bunches. Thanks!– KyleMit
Dec 31 '18 at 1:09
Oh, sweet!! I'm a sucker for throwing samples inside
<pre><code> blocks and escaping myself so I can throw in some extra <b> or <i> tags to empahsize sections within the code. This'll help bunches. Thanks!– KyleMit
Dec 31 '18 at 1:09
Ahh, definitely answers the question, but didn't happen to solve my roundabout problem. Now that syntax highlighting is being applied to html blocks, it's sanitizing the tags inside them
– KyleMit
Dec 31 '18 at 1:16
Ahh, definitely answers the question, but didn't happen to solve my roundabout problem. Now that syntax highlighting is being applied to html blocks, it's sanitizing the tags inside them
– KyleMit
Dec 31 '18 at 1:16
add a comment |
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