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javascriptsyntax-highlighting
Ally
Ally

Reputation: 4942

Are there any JavaScript syntax highlighters with a small footprint and nice formatting?

Ok so I've tried out the seemly most popular syntax highlighter that seems to be out there

http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/

but the file size is quite large, it seems a little heavy to include it and the format of the highlighted code I feel looks ugly.

Is there any alternative?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 160

Answers (3)

Ally
Ally

Reputation: 4942

Thanks for the answers I had a look at those highlighters,. I like rainbows lightweight ness. But not a fan of the styling. And Google's Prettify is good although double the file size of rainbow. In the end I decided to whip up my own. If anyones interested I put a version up on bitbucket.

https://bitbucket.org/SharkAttack/syntax-highlighter

Upvotes: -1

Tyler Sedlar
Tyler Sedlar

Reputation: 37

Rainbow's light weight and works nicely.

There's a few out there, google's your friend (I'm only able to post two hyperlinks, sorry! Otherwise, I'd post more that I found.)

Here's another link I found:

Hope you find one of them useful.

Upvotes: 2

koostudios
koostudios

Reputation: 171

Google's Prettify is slightly smaller and lighter but a syntax highlighter that runs in JavaScript is inherently large, especially if it has to support many languages. One option is to run something server-side like Pygments but that's a little harder to setup depending on what you're doing.

Upvotes: 2

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