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Library API
===========
Highlight.js exports a few functions as methods of the ``hljs`` object.
``highlight(name, value, ignore_illegals, continuation)``
---------------------------------------------------------
Core highlighting function.
Accepts a language name, or an alias, and a string with the code to highlight.
The ``ignore_illegals`` parameter, when present and evaluates to a true value,
forces highlighting to finish even in case of detecting illegal syntax for the
language instead of throwing an exception.
The ``continuation`` is an optional mode stack representing unfinished parsing.
When present, the function will restart parsing from this state instead of
initializing a new one.
Returns an object with the following properties:
* ``language``: language name, same as the one passed into a function, returned for consistency with ``highlightAuto``
* ``relevance``: integer value
* ``value``: HTML string with highlighting markup
* ``top``: top of the current mode stack
``highlightAuto(value, languageSubset)``
----------------------------------------
Highlighting with language detection.
Accepts a string with the code to highlight and an optional array of language names and aliases restricting detection to only those languages. The subset can also be set with ``configure``, but the local parameter overrides the option if set.
Returns an object with the following properties:
* ``language``: detected language
* ``relevance``: integer value
* ``value``: HTML string with highlighting markup
* ``second_best``: object with the same structure for second-best heuristically detected language, may be absent
``fixMarkup(value)``
--------------------
Post-processing of the highlighted markup. Currently consists of replacing indentation TAB characters and using ``<br>`` tags instead of new-line characters. Options are set globally with ``configure``.
Accepts a string with the highlighted markup.
``highlightBlock(block)``
-------------------------
Applies highlighting to a DOM node containing code.
This function is the one to use to apply highlighting dynamically after page load
or within initialization code of third-party Javascript frameworks.
The function uses language detection by default but you can specify the language
in the ``class`` attribute of the DOM node. See the :doc:`class reference
</css-classes-reference>` for all available language names and aliases.
``configure(options)``
----------------------
Configures global options:
* ``tabReplace``: a string used to replace TAB characters in indentation.
* ``useBR``: a flag to generate ``<br>`` tags instead of new-line characters in the output, useful when code is marked up using a non-``<pre>`` container.
* ``classPrefix``: a string prefix added before class names in the generated markup, used for backwards compatibility with stylesheets.
* ``languages``: an array of language names and aliases restricting auto detection to only these languages.
Accepts an object representing options with the values to updated. Other options don't change
::
hljs.configure({
tabReplace: ' ', // 4 spaces
classPrefix: '' // don't append class prefix
// … other options aren't changed
})
hljs.initHighlighting();
``initHighlighting()``
----------------------
Applies highlighting to all ``<pre><code>..</code></pre>`` blocks on a page.
``initHighlightingOnLoad()``
----------------------------
Attaches highlighting to the page load event.
``registerLanguage(name, language)``
------------------------------------
Adds new language to the library under the specified name. Used mostly internally.
* ``name``: a string with the name of the language being registered
* ``language``: a function that returns an object which represents the
language definition. The function is passed the ``hljs`` object to be able
to use common regular expressions defined within it.
``listLanguages()``
----------------------------
Returns the languages names list.
.. _getLanguage:
``getLanguage(name)``
---------------------
Looks up a language by name or alias.
Returns the language object if found, ``undefined`` otherwise.
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