Code blocks

Document 360 uses Prisim.js for syntax highlighting, and supports syntax highlighting in code blocks for languages like:

• HTML
• C#
• Java
• JavaScript
• XML
• JSON
• CSS
• SQL
• Python
• Markdown
• PHP
• PowerShell

For a complete list supported languages, see Prisim's Supported Languages documentation.

Creating code blocks

In the Markdown editor, you can create fenced code blocks by placing triple backticks ``` before and after the included code snippet.

To apply a language's specific syntax highlighting, include the language shortcode (see list below) after the first 3 backticks.

For example:

```csharp
[your code snippet]
```

In the WYSIWYG editor, you can create a code block by clicking the code block icon and selecting your desired language.

Language shortcodes

• C: c
• C++: cpp, c++
• C#: csharp
• CSS: css
• CoffeeScript: coffeescript
• HTML: html
• JSON: json
• Java: java
• JavaScript: javascript, js
• Objective-C: objective-c, obj-c, objc
• Objective-C++: objc++
• PHP: php
• Perl: perl, pl
• Python 3: python3, py3
• Python: python, py
• Ruby: ruby, rb
• Snobol: snobol
• XML: xml

Indentation and code blocks

Any text indented at least 4 spaces will be treated as a code block. This is helpful for longer code snippets. This code will not be syntax-highlighted, but instead will be shown as plain text.

The following code block is created using indents instead of backticks.

def test():
    logging.error('Test failed')

Code block examples

C# block

using System;
namespace HelloWorld
{
    class Hello 
    {
        static void Main() 
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");

            // Keep the console window open in debug mode.
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit.");
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

Javascript block

function $initHighlight(block, cls) {
try {
if (cls.search(/\bno\-highlight\b/) != -1)
return process(block, true, 0x0F) +
` class="${cls}"`;
} catch (e) {
/* handle exception */
} 
export $initHighlight;

XML block

<book id="bk101">
      <author>Gambardella, Matthew</author>
      <title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
      <genre>Computer</genre>
      <price>44.95</price>
      <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>
      <description>An in-depth look at creating applications 
      with XML.</description>
   </book>

JSON block

{
    "one": 2,
    "three": {
        "point_1": "point_2",
        "point_3": 3.4
    },
    "list": [
        "one",
        "two",
        "three"
    ]
}

PowerShell block

$user = Read-Host "Enter Username"
$pass = Read-Host "Enter Password" -AsSecureString

Ruby block

require 'redcarpet'
markdown = Redcarpet.new("Hello World!")
puts markdown.to_html