How do I set an HTML class attribute in Markdown?

Question

If I have some Markdown like

## My Title  A paragraph of content here.      code_line(1);     // a code comment     class MoreCode { }  and more text to follow... 

How can I set a class on the <code> block that's generated in the middle there? I want to have it output

<code class=’prettyprint’>   code_line(1);   // a code comment   class More Code { } </code> 

But I can't seem to set it. I do not have control over the Markdown code being run, only over the content.

Answer 1

You can embed HTML in Markdown. Type literally what you want, with no indent.

<code class="prettyprint">   code_line(1);   // a code comment   class More Code { } </code> 

For the specific case of syntax highlighting following the back ticks at the start of a fenced code block with the language works just about everywhere these days.

```js code_line(1); // a code comment class MoreCode { } ```