Highlight.js Plugin for DocPad

This plugin enables Highlight.js syntax highlighting for DocPad

Install

Install the Plugin

docpad install highlightjs

Download a Stylesheet

Available stylesheets are here. You can preview some of them here.

Usage

Example inputs are here and their corresponding outputs are here. For the general gist of things, the following will suffice:

HTML

Input

<h3>Coffescript - Lang tag</h3>
<pre><code class="lang-coffeescript">
if true
	func = -&gt;
		alert "hello world"

	func()
</code></pre>

Output

<h3>Coffescript - Lang tag</h3>
<pre class="highlighted"><code class="coffeescript">
<span class="keyword">if</span> <span class="literal">true</span>
	<span class="function"><span class="title">func</span></span> = -&gt;
		alert <span class="string">"hello world"</span>

	func()
</code></pre>

Markdown

Input

### Coffeescript with fenced code

``` coffeescript
if true
	func = ->
		alert 'hello world'
	func()
```

Output

<h3>Coffeescript with fenced code</h3>
<pre class="highlighted"><code class="coffeescript"><span class="keyword">if</span> <span class="literal">true</span>
	<span class="function"><span class="title">func</span></span> = -&gt;
		alert <span class="string">'hello world'</span>
	func()</code></pre>

Configure

Language Aliases

Sometimes one of the languages you want to highlight isn't available. In which case, you'd probably want to add an alias for it to a language that is similar. To do this, you'll want to add something like the following to your docpad configuration file.

plugins:
	highlightjs:
		aliases:
			missinglanguage: 'alternativelanguage'

You can find a list of languages that are supported via the Highlight.js source tree.

Replacing Tabs

By default, we replace tabs with 4 spaces. This can be changed by changing the replaceTab configuration option:

plugins:
	highlightjs:
		replaceTab: null  # keep tabs

Transforms

You can apply transformations to code blocks before they are highlighted by using the transforms configuration option. It accepts an array of functions or arrays.

plugins:
	highlightjs:
		transforms: [
			# Remove extra indentation from the code block
			# Requires: http://balupton.com/project/bal-util
			(source, language) ->
				require('bal-util').removeIndentation(source)  if language in ['bash','coffeescript']

			# Replace "(C)" with "©"
			(source) -> source.replace /\(C\)/gm, '©'
		]

Class Name

You can customise the css classname that is added by adjusting the className configuration option, defaults to highlight

plugins:
	highlightjs:
		className: 'blah'

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