alternative syntax highlighting

an alternative way to do syntax highlighting is using the dojo toolkit. dojo toolkit is a javascript library.

add this code to your template in the same place described in the previous post.

<link href='http://o.aolcdn.com/dojo/1.2/dojox/highlight/resources/highlight.css' rel='stylesheet'/>
<link href='http://o.aolcdn.com/dojo/1.2/dojox/highlight/resources/pygments/default.css' rel='stylesheet'/>
<script djConfig='parseOnLoad: true' src='http://o.aolcdn.com/dojo/1.2/dojo/dojo.xd.js'/>
<script>
    dojo.require("dojox.highlight");
    dojo.require("dojox.highlight.languages._all");
    dojo.require("dojox.highlight.languages.pygments._www");
    dojo.addOnLoad(function() {
        dojo.query("code").forEach(dojox.highlight.init);
    });
</script>

put all your code inside <pre> and <code> blocks and use a <code class="lang"> to define the language for the code block. valid values for lang are:

• cpp
• css
• delphi
• django
• html
• javascript
• python
• sql
• xml

unfortunately, since php is not supported, i probably won't end up using this option. also, feel free to suggest any other options that i might like better than the 2 i've found so far.