AngularJS directive for syntax highlighting with highlight.js.
- Highlight.js (.js & .css)
- AngularJS v1.0.1+
Follow the instructions here to setup highlight.js.
Using a prebuilt version of highlight.js hosted at Yandex here.
<!-- personal preference: github theme -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/8.3/styles/github.min.css">
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/8.3/highlight.min.js"></script>
Include angular-highlightjs
module script with AngularJS script on your page.
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.26/angular.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://pc035860.github.io/angular-highlightjs/angular-highlightjs.min.js"></script>
Add hljs
to your app module's dependency.
angular.module('myApp', ['hljs']);
npm install highlight.js
npm install angular-highlightjs
There's currently no official bower package of highlight.js (see here). You should either build highlight.js yourself or use the pre-built one on cdnjs.
bower install angular-highlightjs
Configuration works with highlight.js >= 8.0
In configuration phase, call hljsServiceProvider.setOptions()
to configure with highlight.js options.
myApp.config(function (hljsServiceProvider) {
hljsServiceProvider.setOptions({
// replace tab with 4 spaces
tabReplace: ' '
});
});
This is a required directive. Without any other supportive directives, it provides basic inline highlight function. For better understanding, some notes about using it are specified in the live example page.
The directive automatically escapes its content HTML entities by default. Can be turned off with explicitly configuration escape="{expression evaled to false}"
or no-escape
, and they're only applicable for "just-hljs
" usage.
<!-- hljs start -->
<div hljs>
<!-- put your codes here -->
</div>
<!-- hljs end -->
<!-- Will get the same result as above -->
<div hljs no-escape>
<!-- put your codes here -->
</div>
Type: expression
Default: undefined
If source
is presented, the hljs
directive will evaluate the expression and highlight the result string. This is pretty useful for dynamically changed content.
Dynamically changed content.
<!-- buttons for put/clear $scope.subSource content -->
<button class="btn btn-primary show-source"
ng-click="toggleSource('subSource')" ng-show="!subSource">put $scope.subSource</button>
<button class="btn btn-primary show-source"
ng-click="toggleSource('subSource')" ng-show="subSource">clear $scope.subSource</button>
<div ng-show="subSource">
<br>
<!-- hljs connected with $scope.subSource -->
<div hljs source="subSource"></div>
</div>
The expression. Beware of single-quotes.
<!-- hljs connected with independent string -->
<div hljs source="'<html><head><body></body></head></html>'"></div>
Type: expression
Default: undefined
Works as the built-in ng-include
directive, utilizes $templateCache
and $http
to retrieve content from text/ng-template
scripts or from XHR.
From text/ng-template
script localOne
. Beware of single-quotes in the expression.
<!-- load text/ng-template named 'localOne' -->
<div hljs include="'localOne'"></div>
From partials/lang-perl
XHR. Again, beware of single-quotes.
<!-- load "partials/lang-perl" -->
<div hljs include="'partials/lang-perl'"></div>
Type: string
Default: undefined
Tells the highlight.js which language syntax should be used to highlight the codes. If not specified, highlight.js will highlight with built-in language detection.
<!-- PHP codes highlight with language detection -->
<div hljs include="'partials/lang-php'"></div>
<!-- PHP codes highlight with specified language: perl -->
<div hljs include="'partials/lang-php'" language="perl"></div>
Type: expression
Default: undefined
Compiles the highlighted code and links it with current scope. The expression will be evaluated after every actual highlight action.
The attribute works with all methhods of highlighting: hljs
, hljs source
and hljs include
.
<div hljs include="'compile-me'" compile="true"></div>