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Interface options for specifying language prettify
I don't know how Markdown recognize which language used in the code blocks. But sometimes it doesn't guess right.
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Interface options for specifying language prettify
I don't know how Markdown recognize which language used in the code blocks. But sometimes it doesn't guess right.
(Note, I'm answering the body of your question, not the title)
The tags on your question are used to determine the language for the code blocks.
I'm not sure how that works if you have multiple languages in your tags, or for code golf questions.
<!-- language: «lang-or-tag-here» -->
in stackoverflow, ` ```«lang-or-tag-here» ` elsewhere...