highlight.js

Syntax highlighting for the Web

#include <iostream>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

  /* An annoying "Hello World" example */
  for (auto i = 0; i < 0xFFFF; i++)
    cout << "Hello, World!" << endl;

  char c = '\n';
  unordered_map <string, vector<string> > m;
  m["key"] = "\\\\"; // this is an error

  return -2e3 + 12l;
}

• 185 languages and 89 styles
• automatic language detection
• multi-language code highlighting
• available for node.js
• works with any markup
• compatible with any js framework

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1. 2019-08-19

   Version 9.15.10 New languages: none. New styles: none. Improvements: - support for ruby's squiggly heredoc (#2049) - support css custom properties (#2082) - fix(PureBASIC): update to 5.60 (#1508) - fix(Kotlin): parenthesized types in function declaration (#2107) - fix(Kotlin): nested comment (#2104) - fix(isbl): contains key typo (#2103) - fix(github-gist.css): match Github styles (#2100) - fix(elm): update to latest elm syntax (#2088) - fix: Support highlighting inline HTML and CSS tagged template strings in JS and TS (#2105) - feat(YAML): add YAML to common languages (#1952) - feat(xml): Add support for Windows Script File (.wsf), inline VBScript in XML script tags (#1690)

2. 2019-07-30

   Version 9.15.9

   Improvements: - fix(AutoHotkey): order and extended highlighting (#1579) - fix(Go): correctly highlight hex numbers, rather than stopping at last 'd' or 'f'. (#2060) - fix(Mathematica): Improvements to language (#2065) - fix(Node): Adds SCSS build (#2079) - fix(Rust): update keywords (#2052) - fix(Stata): Added keywords for the meta-analysis suite introduced in Stata 16 (#2081) - fix(Bash): escape double quotes (#2048)

3. 2019-05-29

   Version 9.15.8

   New languages: none. New styles: none. Improvements: - fix(bash): revert escaped double quotes - broke Firefox/Safari.

4. 2019-05-28

   Version 9.15.7 New languages: none. New styles: none. Improvements: - fix(powershell): Add cmdlets (#2022) - fix(Bash): escaped double quotes (#2041) - fix(c++): add aliases 'hh', 'hxx', 'cxx' (#2017) - fix(ini/toml): Support comments on the same line. (#2039) - fix(JSX): not rendering well in a function without parentheses. (#2024) - fix(LiveCode): language definition update (#2021) - fix(markdown): indented lists (#2004) - fix(styles/school-book): don't style all the pre, use .hljs instead (#2034) - fix(JSX): Modify JSX tag detection to use XML language regex in place of simplistic \w+

5. 2019-02-26

   Version 9.15.6 New languages: none. New styles: none. Improvements: - Move dependencies to be devDependencies. - Fixed security issues in dev dependencies.

6. 2019-02-25

   Version 9.15.5 New languages: none. New styles: none. Improvements: 🔥 Hot fix: updated build tool.

7. 2019-02-25

   Version 9.15.2 New languages: none. New styles: none. Improvements: 🔥 Hot fix that was preventing highlight.js from installing.

8. 2019-02-24

   Version 9.15.1

   New languages: none.

   New styles: none.

   Improvements:

   • Pony: Fixed keywords without spaces at line ends, highlighting of iso in class definitions, and function heads without bodies in traits and interfaces. Removed FUNCTION and CLASS modes until they are found to be needed and to provide some of the fixes.
   • Support external language files in minified version of highlight.js (#1888)
9. 2019-01-31

   Version 9.14.2

   New languages: none. New styles: none. Improvements: - Gauss fixed to stop global namespace pollution Scott Hyndman. - fix(Tcl): removed apostrophe string delimiters (don't exist)

10. 2019-01-29

    Version 9.14.1

    New languages: none. New styles: none. Improvements: - Pony: language improvements (#1958)