2014年10月13日 · How is the syntax highlighting language set? The syntax highlighting may be set by the question's tags. If you have not explicitly set the syntax highlighting language for the code block or the post, Stack Exchanges uses the tags on the question to infer the language you are using. If two or more tags on the question have different syntax ...

2022年5月23日 · Syntax highlighting is dependent on the tags. Some tags have languages pre-defined, some tags let the highlighter interpret the language (default), and some tags do not enable highlighting features at all (none). When there is only one tag with a specific language defined, all of the code blocks will use that language.

2024年10月14日 · Syntax highlighting of attributes on method parameters in C# seems buggy. The code at the bottom of this question doesn't render the first attribute correctly. I've replicated the code and provided a ...

There are related existing posts, but this one makes a concrete proposal that complements the feature-request post that asks for proper PowerShell syntax-highlighting support via highlight.js, Enable automatic and on-demand syntax highlighting for PowerShell (updated for highlight.js)

2021年4月28日 · @BoltClock - btw, "Code Language (used for syntax highlighting): lang-js", maybe this has something to do with the issue. Highlighting seems to choke on generic type parameters syntax and does indeed generate a lang-js markup even if a fenced code block is used with explicit annotation lang-ts. –

2015年5月12日 · I notice that stackoverflow automatically adds syntax highlighting to code blocks. I hate this. It always applies the wrong language's highlighting to the wrong code. Example? The last question I've posted, of course. Because it always happens.

2021年6月11日 · Wouldn't even some default syntax highlighting get one of the most common comment # styles right? The answer is actually yes , the highlighter just isn't defaulting to anything here for some reason. Also, calling the triple backticks method ( ```sh ) a "hack" is a little weird...

2017年10月22日 · The languages supported by our syntax highlighting engine are listed here. There is obviously nothing for Java .properties files, and I don't see anything that would be suitable. Perhaps Bash comes closest; at least it gets …

From what I read here, and here; I expected there would be syntax highlighting for Dockerfile files. But I've tried it to apply highlighting to one answer of mine here, but it never shows. I've tried using both docker and dockerfile as language hints, with the same (lack of) results.

Since the edit, I no longer see syntax highlighting on my answer: This is after giving the highlighting a few seconds to appear, Reloading the page, and Shift + Reloading the page. I do still see syntax highlighting on the question and its other answers, however. During the edit, syntax highlighting worked as expected in the answer preview.