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You can't highlight a language with Markdown. You need to outsource this to external libraries. Such as.

1. SyntaxHighlighter
2. Google Code Prettify
3. Pygments

EDIT: The StackOverflow way of doing this is to have a comment at the top. Like so.

<!-- language: lang-js -->

Just replace lang-js with one of the language codes or a tag to set the language to the language associated with that tag. For example.

<!-- language: C# -->

Highlighting for C# is associated with the C# tag.

You can't highlight a language with Markdown. You need to outsource this to external libraries. Such as.

1. SyntaxHighlighter
2. Google Code Prettify
3. Pygments

EDIT: The StackOverflow way of doing this is to have a comment at the top. Like so.

<!-- language: lang-js -->

Just replace lang-js with one of the language codes or a tag to set the language to the language associated with that tag. For example.

<!-- language: c# -->

Highlighting for c# is associated with the c# tag.

(use lowercase letters, uppercase letters like <!-- language: C# --> does not work.)

You can't highlight a language with Markdown. You need to outsource this to external libraries. Such as.

1. SyntaxHighlighter
2. Google Code Prettify
3. Pygments

EDIT: The StackOverflow way of doing this is to have a comment at the top. Like so.

<!-- language: lang-js -->

Just replace lang-js with one of the language codes or a tag to set the language to the language associated with that tag. For example.

<!-- language: C# -->

Highlighting for C# is associated with the C# tag.

You can't highlight a language with Markdown. You need to outsource this to external libraries. Such as.

1. SyntaxHighlighter
2. Google Code Prettify
3. Pygments

EDIT: The StackOverflow way of doing this is to have a comment at the top. Like so.

<!-- language: lang-js -->

Just replace lang-js with one of the language codes or a tag to set the language to the language associated with that tag. For example.

<!-- language: C# -->

Highlighting for C# is associated with the C# tag.

You can't highlight a language with Markdown. You need to outsource this to external libraries. Such as.

1. SyntaxHighlighter
2. Google Code Prettify
3. Pygments

EDIT: The StackOverflow way of doing this is to have a comment at the top. Like so.

<!-- language: lang-js -->

Just replace lang-js with one of the language codes or a tag to set the language to the language associated with that tag. For example.

<!-- language: C# -->

Highlighting for C# is associated with the C# tag.

You can't highlight a language with Markdown. You need to outsource this to external libraries. Such as.

1. SyntaxHighlighter
2. Google Code Prettify
3. Pygments

EDIT: The StackOverflow way of doing this is to have a comment at the top. Like so.

<!-- language: lang-js -->

Just replace lang-js with one of the language codes or a tag to set the language to the language associated with that tag. For example.

<!-- language: C# -->

Highlighting for C# is associated with the C# tag.