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Is Stack Overflow's code color-coding script available? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How does Stack Overflow syntax highlight citations so well? I hope I'm asking this in the right place. I really admire the color-coding script that the Stack Overflow ...
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What syntax highlighting library is used on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicates: Is Stack Overflow's code color-coding script available? What syntax highlighter does Stack Overflow use? How does Stack Overflow syntax highlight citations so well? I ...
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What syntax highlighter does Stack Overflow use? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How does Stack Overflow syntax highlight citations so well? What syntax highlighter does Stack Overflow use? I was browsing Meta Stack Overflow and I couldn't find ...
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How does SO do its syntax highlighting for code? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How does SO syntax highlight citations so well? The syntax highlighting on StackOverflow is excellent. How do they do it?
Jim Downing's user avatar
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What is syntax highlighting and how does it work?

I noticed that sometimes my code gets highlighted in different colors when rendered. What is syntax highlighting? How does it work? Why isn't my code being highlighted correctly? How do I report a ...
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What HTML tags are allowed on Stack Exchange sites?

Stack Exchange sites use Markdown for questions and answers. Per the Markdown specification, intermixing HTML and Markdown markup is allowed, but not all the HTML tags are allowed, to avoid XSS. Which ...
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Changes to syntax highlighting

locked for the history - please post bugs and feature-requests separately. -Shog9 We're changing the way syntax highlighting is done on the Stack Exchange engine. As you probably know, we use ...
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Interface options for specifying language prettify [duplicate]

I'm the maintainer for Google Code Prettify. Markup authors can specify the language for source code, but not markdown authors. Are the SO admins interested in a way of doing this? If so, might the ...
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How can I specify a language in a code block? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Interface options for specifying language prettify I don't know how Markdown recognizes which language to use in code blocks. Sometimes it doesn't guess right. Can I specify a ...
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Source code syntax highlighting on Stack Overflow WMD

I was wondering how Stack Overflow (WMD editor) solves syntax highlighting on source code snippets. I understand that if text is marked as code it gets that <pre> CODE </pre> tags and ...
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Do questions about specific StackOverflow implementation details belong on SO or Meta?

This SO question has several discussion comments going back and forth about whether the question belongs on SO or Meta. The question is asking about how a specific feature of the site is implemented ...
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