JavaScript - Text Areas with Code Syntax Highlighting
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The HTML textarea element is limited to just text - it cannot do color syntax highlighting easily. To achieve colored highlighting, various people/groups have created JavaScript libraries.
These are summarized here:
- Comparison of JavaScript-based source code editors - Wikipedia - lists a bunch.
Looking at the forums, there are two that stand out:
- Code Mirror (html demo) (Google kml example)
- For which I did a hello world here: JavaScript - Syntax Highlighting - CodeMirror Hello World
- Ace Editor (kitch sink demo)
I'd also like to create a "do it yourself" guide, once I figure out if it's easy to do just really simply highlighting where you can specify a few words or regex to highlight.
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