Rainbow is a code syntax highlighting library written in Javascript.
It was designed to be lightweight (1.4kb), easy to use, and extendable.
It is completely themable via CSS.
If you would like to donate to help support Rainbow development use Gittip.
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Include some markup for code you want to be highlighted:
<pre><code data-language="python">def openFile(path): file = open(path, "r") content = file.read() file.close() return content</code></pre>
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Include a CSS theme file in the
<head>:<link href="/assets/css/theme.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
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Include rainbow.js and whatever languages you want before the closing
</body>:<script src="/assets/js/rainbow.min.js"></script> <script src="/assets/js/language/generic.js"></script> <script src="/assets/js/language/python.js"></script>
If you have a language specific pattern that you want highlighted, but it does not exist in the language syntax rules you can add a rule on your page.
Let's say for example you want to reference PHP's apc functions. You can include the php language then in the markup on your page add:
<script>
Rainbow.extend('php', [
{
'matches': {
1: 'support.function'
},
'pattern': /\b(apc_(store|fetch|add|inc))(?=\()/g
}
]);
</script>Currently supported languages are:
- C
- C#
- Coffeescript
- CSS
- D
- Go
- Haskell
- HTML
- Java
- Javascript
- Lua
- PHP
- Python
- R
- Ruby
- Scheme
- Shell
- Smalltalk
Rainbow gets minified with the closure compiler. You can install it on OS X via Homebrew:
brew install closure-compiler
To build a minified version of your changes, you can run the compile script:
./util/compile.py --core
In case the compiler cannot be found (which is the case if you installed via Homebrew),
you will have to specify the path to the compiler.jar (see brew info closure-compiler) -
here's an example:
CLOSURE_COMPILER=/usr/local/Cellar/closure-compiler/20120710/libexec/build/compiler.jar util/compile.py --core
If you want to build a custom version, list the languages you would like to include as command line arguments:
util/compile.py ruby javascript
Unit tests run via mocha.
Download the repo and go to tests/rainbow.html in your browser.
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Install grunt-cli
npm install -g grunt-cli
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Install npm packages
cd /path/to/repo npm install -
Run tests
grunt mocha
If you are looking for line number support you can try one of the following:
You can check out additional documentation and build custom packages at rainbowco.de.