MyWiki:Syntax highlighting
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Syntax highlighting is a feature to display source code in different colors and fonts to indicate the structure to readers.
Wikipedia:Syntax highlighting or WP:SYNTAX may refer to:
Wikitext syntax highlighting for editors
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Toggling wikitext editor syntax highlighter in the 2010 editor (top) and 2017 editor (bottom).
- mw:Help:Extension:CodeMirror - Must be turned on in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures -> Improved Syntax Highlighting
- User:Remember the dot/Syntax highlighter – documentation for the wikitext syntax highlighter available as "Syntax highlighter" under Preferences → Gadgets → Tick (S) Syntax highlighter: Alternative to the default coloring of wiki syntax in the edit box (works best in Firefox and works almost all of the time in Chrome and Opera).
- User:Cacycle/wikEd – an editor which includes syntax highlighting, available as "wikEd" under Preferences → Gadgets → Tick (U) wikEd: alternative full-featured integrated text editor for Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome (documentation).
- Help:Text editor support – how to use an external text editor (most of which perform syntax highlighting) to edit Wikipedia pages.
Rendered syntax highlighting on pages for readers
[edit source]- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Computer science § Code samples – text formatting style guideline for sample code and markup in Wikipedia articles intended for readers.
- Extension:SyntaxHighlight – documentation for the
<syntaxhighlight>markup that can be used to provide well-formatted code examples.- Category:Pages with syntax highlighting errors – tracking category for pages using this feature incorrectly.
In general
[edit source]- Help:Wikitext – basic info on the MediaWiki markup syntax used in Wikipedia's pages ("wiki-markup")
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style – Wikipedia's internal style manual for all English Wikipedia articles, including detail on layouts and formatting.
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