I'm looking for a syntax highlighter tool that enables you to highlight selected code in a textarea, and to select the programming language. I would like to select code, then choose the language (java or ruby..).

I tried the ckeditor syntax highlighter plugin but didn't like it.

I'm looking for a syntax highlighter tool that enables you to highlight selected code in a textarea, and to select the programming language. I would like to select code, then choose the language (java or ruby..).

I tried the ckeditor syntax highlighter plugin but didn't like it.

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• ruby-on-rails
• ruby-on-rails-3
• syntax-highlighting

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• This alexgorbatchev./SyntaxHighlighter is used by Oracle (docs.oracle./javase/tutorial/displayCode.html?code=https://…). – ROMANIA_engineer Commented Nov 26, 2015 at 14:26

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Ace and CodeMirror are two of the most popular, used in browsers dev tools (Firefox/Webkit) and GitHub Gists, etc.

There are most popular syntak highlighting tool:

EditArea, CodePress and CodeMirror