A simple, pluggable API for syntax highlighting.

Syntax highlighters tend to have pretty opinionated APIs, both in terms of when to highlight, and how to determine the language. And lots bundle the languages directly into the core library, which makes it much harder to reason about them individually, or to have the smallest possible file size if you don't need the esoteric ones.

So... we made this one. The API is very simple, yet still gives you full control. The language definitions are all separate plugins, so you get the smallest possible build size, and so that they're simpler for everyone to contribute to. Because regexes are already hard enough to read as it is!

$ component install segmentio/highlight

var Highlight = require('highlight')
var html = require('highlight-xml');
var js = require('highlight-javascript');

var highlight = new Highlight()
  .use(html)
  .use(js);

var el = document.querySelector('.code-sample');
highlight.element(el);

...or if you're lazy, you can just pass a selector string:

highlight.element('.code-sample');

...or if you're incredibly lazy, you can just highlight everything:

highlight.all();

• Bash
• CSS
• C#
• Go
• HTML
• Java
• Javascript
• JSON
• .NET
• Objective-C
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby
• SQL
• XML
• YAML

Create a new Highlight instance.

Apply a plugin function, for example language syntaxes.

Highlight a string of code of a given language.

Highlight an el. If you don't pass a language, it will use the data-language attribute:

<pre data-language="css"><code>YOUR CODE HERE</code></pre>

Highlight a series of els.

Highlight all of the elements in the DOM that have a data-language attribute.

Set the CSS class name prefix string.

Define a new language by name with a grammar.

Return an AST for a given string and language.

Convert an AST into a string of HTML.

The MIT License

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