https://github.com/thomasjo/highlight

A relatively simple and extensible syntax highlighter written in C#
https://github.com/thomasjo/highlight

c-sharp dotnet extensible syntax-highlighting

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A relatively simple and extensible syntax highlighter written in C#

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/thomasjo/highlight
• Owner: thomasjo
• License: mit
• Created: 2011-03-23T11:34:50.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-10T16:21:28.000Z (10 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-31T22:38:14.712Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: c-sharp, dotnet, extensible, syntax-highlighting
• Language: C#
• Homepage:
• Size: 490 KB
• Stars: 89
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 28
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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# Highlight

A relatively simple and extensible syntax highlighter written in C#.

## TL;DR

```powershell

Install-Package Highlight

```

```csharp

var highlighter = new Highlighter(new HtmlEngine());

var highlightedCode = highlighter.Highlight("C#", csharpCode);

```

## Syntax definitions

The following is a list of all the definition names of syntaxes/languages that are supported out of the box;

- ASPX

- C

- C++

- C#

- COBOL

- Eiffel

- Fortran

- Haskell

- HTML

- Java

- JavaScript

- Mercury

- MSIL

- Pascal

- Perl

- PHP

- Python

- Ruby

- SQL

- Visual Basic

- VBScript

- VB.NET

- XML

## Output engines

Highlight supports the notion of an output engine which makes it possible to get the syntax highlighted result output in any format. Out of the box Highlight support HTML, XML and RTF output formats.

The HtmlEngine supports inline styles which can be enabled by setting the **UseCss** property to **true**;

```csharp

var highlighter = new Highlighter(new HtmlEngine { UseCss = true });

var highlightedCode = highlighter.Highlight("C#", csharpCode);

```