If you are a regular reader of this blog, you will notice we have been dealing on tutorials on syntax Highlighter. if you haven’t been following this tutorial, i suggest you read Ultimate Guide To Installing And Using SyntaxHighlighter By Alex Gorbatchev so that you will have an idea of what we are talking about.
Normally, to use implement syntax highlighting, you need to add upload it files in your server, or call the file from a hosted server then use a define tag to make the syntax highlighting to work. if you are the type that hate coding, and sees the process of setting up a syntax highlighter to work as cumbersome, there is an easy way to implement syntax highlighting using online web tools and services. all you need do is, go to the website, paste the code in the specified textarea and then copy the HTML code result and paste it to your web page.
Below are 8+ Online Syntax Highlighter Tools:
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ToHTML Online Syntax Highlighter
This is one of the top and best syntax highlighter online tool. it has support for 100+ programming language with a good number of pretty themes.
All you need to do is, paste your code in the Source code textarea, select the theme and the programming code, then click the Highlight button. Copy the resultant HTML code to website. -
CodeColorizer Tool
CodeColorizer can convert your ASP, C/C++, Clipper, Delphi/Pascal, HTML, Java, JavaScript and Visual Basic source code to colorized (syntax highlighted) HTML documents. Colorized source code is easier to read and can help to document, learn, understand, debug, print and publish source code. one demerit about this tool is, it support only the above codes.
overall, it a nice tool with tons of option and configuration to help extend syntax highlighting. -
CodeHTMLer
CodeHTMLer is a simple program that translates plain text code into a colorized HTML version of the code. Currently CodeHTMLer has language definitions for: C#, C++, Java, Jscript, XML, Powershell and F#. -
Markup Online syntax highlighter
This is an online syntax highlighter like TextMate. it has a huge number of highlighting themes and support for large number of programming languages. -
Quick Highlighter
With support for wide range of programming code, it doesn’t get any easier than this to create a webpage from your source code…
You will be given two group of code to copy, first is the internal CSS stylesheet code, second is the HTML code. just copy both to your web page. -
Syntaxhighlight.in
An online tool to display formatted source code, No dynamic styling (no FOUC – Flash Of Unstyled Content), Small footprint – no JavaScript brush to load (JS + CSS is about 6kb), Users can open the code in a popup window for easy printing, Users can swap between formatted and non-formatted views, Users can collapse and expand large snippets, Users can navigate the options via the keyboard, Developers can choose to emphasize arbitrary line(s), Developers can turn line numbering on or off, URLs inside formatted snippets are click-able.
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Highlight.hohli.com/
A syntax highlighter with support for large numbers of programming language. though with just one theme or style, it still a pretty highlighter with bright colours. -
Hilite.me
Hilite.me converts your code snippets into pretty-printed HTML format, easily embeddable into blog posts, emails and websites. Just copy the source code to the left pane, select the language and the color scheme, and click “Highlight!”. The HTML from the right pane can now be pasted to your blog or email, no external CSS or Javascript files are required. -
Thecomplex Plus Highlighter
This is an online syntax highlighting for just for JavaScript, Powershell / Monad, C++, C#, CSS, Delphi / Pascal, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB / VB.Net, XML / HTML. just paste your code and copy the resultant code to your HTML document.