I'm looking for a way to automatically format and color code I write in an HTML document. I know wikipedia does it, for example on the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_function
I'm sure there are libraries out there to do this, but I can't for the life of me, find one. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Have a look at the Prettify JavaScript library. It's the one generally used by people (it's the one being used here on SO, for example.)
You would use it like this:
In your <head> element:
<link href="prettify.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="prettify.js"></script>
In your <body> element:
<body onload="prettyPrint()">
<!-- any HTML you like here... -->
<pre class="prettyprint">
def say_hi():
print("Hello World!")
</pre>
<!-- any HTML you like here... -->
</body>
That's for simple use of the library. If you're using other JavaScript on your page I would recommend other methods for enabling the Prettify library (i.e., don't use the onload attribute of the <body> element.) For example, if you're using jQuery, I wrote this jQuery plugin that I usually use to syntax highlight certain elements:
// Extend jQuery functionality to support prettify as a prettify() method.
jQuery.fn.prettify = function () { this.html(prettyPrintOne(this.html())); };
Used like this:
$('#my-code-element').prettify();