Google's Code Prettifier : Richard Banks

Google's Code Prettifier

Posted by Richard Banks
Jul 11, 2007

Well, this is kinda cool :-). Google has released the Code Prettifier - a little bit of javascript and css to turn unformatted code into something nice:

For example

void Main()
{
  Console.WriteLine("Hello Blog!!");
}

Can become

void Main()
{
  Console.WriteLine("Hello Blog!!");
}

With just the following tags around the code <pre class="prettyprint">...</pre> or <code class="prettyprint">...</code>

Thanks Google!

P.S. Looks like I need to work on the colour schemes. Ah well, nothing's perfect I suppose.

P.P.S It doesn't appear to handle <br /> tags properly at the moment which causes problems in blogger posts.