Quick tip: How to get syntax highlighting in markdown code blocks

Maybe I’m just late to the party, but the other day I learned how to add syntax highlighting in markdown code blocks – and it was almost life changing! Ok, I might be exaggerating a little bit – but it do make your code snippets more readable. And a lot of developer communities accept markdown in comments (and in posts) like dev.to, github etc.

Since I’m so excited about this I thought I should share it! And hopefully some of you will learn something new today 😀

Adding syntax highlighting is really easy, the only thing you have to do is add the programming-language after the first three back-ticks.

Here are some examples in markdown:

# Code blocks

## Below is an empty codeblock
```
```

## Below is a codeblock with javascript - without syntax highlighting
```
const myFunction = () => {
    console.log("This is my function");
}
```

## Below is a codeblock with javascript - with syntax highlighting
```javascript
const myFunction = () => {
    console.log("This is my function");
}
```

## Below is a codeblock with powershell syntax highlighting
```powershell
Connect-PnPOnline "yourtenantURL" -Interactive

Get-PnPTenantAppCatalogUrl
```

And this is how the blocks will be displayed

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/Eli