Prism is a new lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind. It’s a spin-off from Dabblet and is tested there daily by thousands.
Features:
Each language definition adds roughly 300-500 bytes.
Prism forces you to use the correct element for marking up code: . On its own for inline code, or inside a
for blocks of code. In addition, the language is defined through the way recommended in the HTML5 draft: through a language-xxxx class.
upports parallelism with Web Workers, if available.
Very easy to extend without modifying the code, due to Prism’s plugin architecture.
Very easy to define new languages. Only thing you need is a good understanding of regular expressions
All styling is done through CSS, with sensible class names rather than ugly namespaced abbreviated nonsense.
Wide browser support: IE9+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, most Mobile browsers
Highlights embedded languages (e.g. CSS inside HTML, JavaScript inside HTML)
Highlights nested languages (CSS in HTML, JavaScript in HTML)
