10 Syntax Highlight Javascript Plugins

jQuery can be defined as a cross browser JavaScript library. It is basically designed to simplify the client side scripting of HTML. jQuery was released in January 2006. jQuery is one the most popular and efficient JavaScript library used today. This is due to a lot of reasons. It has a lot of advantages. The major one being that it is absolutely free and open source software and also, it is dual licensed .

With the help of jQuery you can easily navigate a document easily . You can also select DOM elements and create animations . In addition you can also handle various events and develop Ajax applications. In addition to all these advantages, It also provides the ability to the developers to create various plugins on top of the Java script library. For the developers, jQuery is extremely essential as it helps them to create abstractions for low level interactions and various advanced efforts.

Apart from these it has a lot more advantages. jQuery has cross browser support and in addition it has various utilities like feature detection and user agent information. Today we are going to share some syntax highlight javascript Plugins for web developers with code.

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1) Highlight JS

Highlight.js highlights syntax in code examples on blogs, forums and in fact on any web pages. It’s very easy to use because it works automatically: finds blocks of code, detects a language, highlights it.

2) Lighter

Lighter is a free syntax highlighting class developed for MooTools. It was created with the MooTools developer in mind and takes advantage of many of the Framework’s features. Using it can be as simple as adding a single script to your webpage, selecting the elements you wish to highlight, and Lighter takes care of the rest.

3) jQuery- Chili Js

1) Very fast highlighting, trivial setup, fully customizable, thoroughly documented, and MIT licensed
Supports line numbers
2) Renders identically on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari
3) Comes bundled with recipes for C++, C#, CSS, Delphi, Java, JavaScript, LotusScript, MySQL, PHP, and XHTML
4) Many configuration options: Static, Dynamic, Automatic, Manual, Ad-Hoc
5) Can be applied to elements of a jQuery object and is chainable
6) Fully supports JavaScript regular expressions, including backreferences
7) The recipe format gives full control on highlighting
8 ) Provides examples which show setups and features

4) SHJS – Syntax Highlighting in JavaScript

SHJS is a JavaScript program which highlights source code passages in HTML documents. Documents using SHJS are highlighted on the client side by the web browser.

5) GeSHi – Generic Syntax Highlighter

Welcome to the home of the Generic Syntax Highlighter - GeSHi. GeSHi started as an idea to create a generic syntax highlighter for the phpBB forum system, but has been generalised to this project. GeSHi aims to be a simple but powerful highlighting class

6) Syntax Highlighter

SyntaxHighlighter is a fully functional self-contained code syntax highlighter developed in JavaScript.

7) Beauty of code- jQuery Plugin for Syntax Highlighting

8) Jush

JavaScript Syntax Highlighter can be used for client-side syntax highlighting of following languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL,HTTP and SMTP protocol, php.ini and Apache config.

9) Javascript- Syntax Highlighting Engine

10)  Snippet

Snippet is a jQuery syntax highlighting plugin built on top of the SHJS script found on SourceForge. Snippet provides a quick and easy way of highlighting source code passages in HTML documents.

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