Inline code syntax highlighting in GitHub markdown?
GithubMarkdownGithub Problem Overview
GitHub-flavored markdown supports syntax highlighting in codeblocks. This is done by adding the name of the language next to the triple-grave codeblock markers:
```ruby
require 'redcarpet'
markdown = Redcarpet.new("Hello World!")
puts markdown.to_html
```
Standard markdown also supports inline codeblocks by wrapping text in `single graves`
. Is there any way to add syntax highlighting to these inline codeblocks?
Github Solutions
Solution 1 - Github
GitHub comments, wikis, README.md etc. use GFM, essentially CommonMark with some extensions. There it's not possible.
However, GitHub Pages uses Jekyll and by extension kramdown where you can use:
`x = 4`{:.ruby}
P.S. If you happen to use pandoc, the syntax is:
`x = 4`{.ruby}
Solution 2 - Github
I had to do
`(inline code)`{:.language-clojure .highlihgt}
for it to work, you have to add .highlight class too. That only applies to Jekyll with kramdown.
Solution 3 - Github
Yes, it is possible with Github Markdown:
I needed to do the same with an XML-structure inside a table row (in my case defined with markdown, nit html, so with | | delimitiers for the table structure)
just put the desired Style-class (in my case .language-xml) within the Structure {: }
`<xml attrib="someVal"></xml>`{:.language-xml}
this will set the style of the table cell to highlight the code according to the set style class
i guess for ruby it then will just be
{:.language-ruby}
took me over an hour to figure out, found the solution nowhere, so i thought i'd post it here if anyone stumbles upon this problem again.