Javascript syntax highlighter that plays nicely with Markdown

Question

I've looked at a few Javascript programs to add syntax highlighting to code blocks on a page, but they all the ones I've found require setting an attribute on the code block to tell it what language is being used. I am generating the HTML with Markdown, so I have no way of setting these attributes, are there any that will do this automatically and will not need an attribute to be set?

The only way I can think of this working is with a shebang line;

#!/usr/bin/ruby
def foo(bar)
    bar
end

And it will know it's Ruby, and maybe even not display the shebang line (having a shebang for a one or two line fragment will get tiring).

I wont be needing it to do any very obscure languages, but it would be great if I could easily write new definitions.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Google Prettifier should do the job. StackOverflow uses it, too (with the markup generated by Markdown). It determines the language automatically.