What is a good syntax highlighter? [closed]

Question

I'm looking for a good syntax highlighter for my site that uses PHP & MySQL and Jquery. A syntax highlighter that does not let the code overlap but allows the user to scroll like here on stackoverflow.

Answer 1

Absolutely all PHP source code highlighters based on Geshi library http://qbnz.com/highlighter/

You can make code blocks "not let the code overlap but allows the user to scroll" by adding CSS overflow : auto;

Also good way is to use JavaScript based code highlighters that highlight code on client side http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/ or http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/

Answer 2

The scrolling is just a CSS property of whatever the code is in - something like...

max-height: 600px;
overflow: auto;

(The overflow attribute tells the browser to use scrollbars, the max-height tells it at what point the vertical scrollbar should kick in.)

As for hilighting, take a look at google-code-prettify.