putting code on a web page 2

[Chance1234]

Im writing up some tutorials for me site; (

http://www.chance1234.com)

and want to put code samples on a page.

The thing i hate is when you copy paste code from a web page and it looses all it formating.

So was wondering what peoples thoughts and ideas were .



Chance,

Filmmaker, gentleman and polla stilo eleous

 

[Foamcow]

wrap it in <pre> tags or place it in a textarea form element

If it's HTML you will also want to convert the < and > characters to ascii codes or the entities &lt; and &gt;

<honk>*:O)</honk>

Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff.
Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.

 

[Chance1234]

Tis is C# is there then anyway to put back in the colouring ?

Chance,

Filmmaker, gentleman and polla stilo eleous

 

[Foamcow]

Colouring?

Surely that's something that is editor specific?

The only ways to do that would be
1. As an image - yuk
2. use html span tags and some css to style the spans' contents



<honk>*:O)</honk>

Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff.
Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You could try something like Dean Edward's 'Star-Light' enhancer, which is script to give "pre" code syntax highlighting on-the-fly. It supports:

* JavaScript
* HTML
* CSS
* XML
* PHP
* Email
* VBScript*
* T-SQL*

http://dean.edwards.name/my/behaviors/#star-light.htc

No idea about browser support outside of IE, but it can't be that hard to port...

Hope this helps,
Dan

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Well - it seems to work in Fx as well, so probably has good cross-browser support.

Dan



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[Chance1234]

hooyah!

also found

http://haacked.com/archive/2004/06/16/code-to-html-syntax-highlighting.aspx

Chance,

Filmmaker, gentleman and polla stilo eleous

 

[Foamcow]

Ooh that's handy.

<honk>*:O)</honk>

Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff.
Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.

 

[ca8msm]

There's also javascript based ones. I use one on my site which has since been taken over by google:

http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/

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