how to show code snippet in blogs

Question

I have a little blog on blogger.com and I use a simple free template that I found out there. Occasionally I post code snippets about my findings. The code gets formatted in a pretty ugly way. I see out there that some bloggers they have fancy template for showing the code.

Where do I find such template for blogger? Or what can I do to achieve the same thing?

Thanks, mE

Answer 1

You can use SyntaxHighlighter, the author has provided a hosted version so you just have to go to your blog template, choose edit HTML and add following code to the beginning of the page

<link href='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/styles/shCore.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
<link href='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/styles/shThemeDefault.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/scripts/shCore.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/scripts/shBrushJScript.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/scripts/shBrushPowerShell.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/scripts/shBrushDiff.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/scripts/shBrushCpp.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/scripts/shBrushCSharp.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/scripts/shBrushBash.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/scripts/shBrushPlain.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/scripts/shBrushXml.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/scripts/shBrushSql.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script type='text/javascript'>
  SyntaxHighlighter.all();
</script>

You can see example on my blog

Answer 2

Usually, there are plugins to achieve what you're looking for (Wordpress has tons and tons), but I'm not sure about Blogger.

You can probably use Javascript to do the same thing; here's an example: http://www.halhelms.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/12/11/Code-Formatting-in-Blog-Pages-with-jQuery

Or this: http://www.craftyfella.com/2010/01/syntax-highlighting-with-blogger-engine.html