Syntaxhighlighter usage Placing the code
Place your code on the page and surround it
tag. Set name attribute to code and class attribute to one of the language aliases you wish to use. ... some code here ...
NOTE: One important thing to watch out for is opening triangular bracket <. It must be replaced with an HTML equivalent of < in all cases. Failure to do won't break the page, but might break the source code displayed.
An alternative to
is to use </TT> tag. There are no problems with <TT><</TT> character in that case. The main problem is that it doesn't look as good as <TT><pre></TT> tag if for some reason JavaScript didn't work (in RSS feed for example). </P><PRE class=code style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0.5em; PADDING-LEFT: 0.5em; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.5em; MARGIN-LEFT: 2em; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0.5em"><textarea name="code" class="c#" cols="60" rows="10">... some code here ...
Extended configurationThere's a way to pass a few configuration options to the code block. It's done via colon separated arguments.
... some code here ...
Making it workFinally, to get the whole thing to render properly on the page, you have to add JavaScript to the page.