HTML5 tag to display syntax highlighting

Question

I was wondering if there was a tag that auto-highlights the syntax of HTML and or PHP in HTML5. I'm writing a guide that has some code in it. Since I'm using a lot of the new html5 tags (I use section for the outline of my guide) I would like to use something in native html5.

If this does not exist, what is the best way to do this? (Like, PHP and CSS?)

Answer 1

There's nothing like that in HTML5 I am afraid, but you can always use highlight_string() from PHP. If you want something purely on the client side, try a JS highlighter like prettify, which is what StackOverflow uses for their code highlighting:

http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/

Here are some other ones:

• SyntaxHighlighter
• SHJS (uses GNU Source-highlight definitions)