Chili – The jQuery Plugin for Highlighting Code

I’ve setup a GitHub account for Chili, so that anyone interested in forging the NEXT version can easily join and contribute.

I’m still new to git, but I hope I have prepared a usable setup for development.

What follows is version 2.2 content. It’s a bit outdated, but still useful. (to be updated)

Main links

• Chili 2.0 Release Post
• Google Code project page
• Quick Start Guide (with examples)

• Latest news
• Reference
• Change Log

Features

• Very fast highlighting, trivial setup, fully customizable, thoroughly documented, and MIT licensed
• Renders identically on IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, and Safari
• Comes bundled with recipes for C++, C#, CSS, Delphi, Java, JavaScript, LotusScript, MySQL, PHP, and XHTML
• Many configuration options: Static, Dynamic, Automatic, Manual, Ad-Hoc, with Metaobjects.
• Provides fine control over which elements get highlighted by means of a jQuery selector or the mithical jQuery chainability.
• Fully supports javascript regular expressions, including backreferences
• The replacement format gives full control on what HTML is used for highlighting
• Provides examples which show setups and features

Reviews

• Chili, resaltador de sintaxis – Scriptia
• webdev – Testing Enzymes & Chili
• jQuery – Syntax Highlighting
• bassistance.de » Plugin Parade #4: Chili
• Jetlogs.org » Syntax Highlightling with Chili
• Javascript Code Highlighter: Chili vs SyntaxHighlighter :: PseudoCoder.com
• ¿Sabes cómo se hace?: ¿Resaltar sintaxis de codigo en mi pagina o blog?
• Chili – コードハイライトJavascript | Takazudo Clipping*
• Beautify your blog’s code samples with these syntax highlighters

Integrations

• PHP Classes – Class: ChiliHighlighter for PHP
• Chili Highlighter | drupal.org
• Firefox plugin
• Syntax highlighting › remiprevost.com
• jQuery Chili plus Code Autoescape is good code highlighting in Wordpress
• Syntax Highlighting with TinyMCE and Ruby on Rails

79 Responses to “Chili NEXT”

1. 6 Awesome Free Syntax Highlighters – To Enhance User Readability says:

   2009-08-30 at 09:42:44

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2. Jim Bancroft says:

   2009-08-13 at 16:52:38

   Since I didn’t see it already done anywhere else on the net, I created a couple of recipes that Flex developers might find useful for highlighting MXML and ActionScript code. I wrote a blog post w/ links to the recipes at the following URL:
   http://jamesbancroft.homeip.net/?p=48
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   2009-08-13 at 16:50:06

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   2009-08-07 at 16:46:57

   I really need help using the jgcharts. Is there any chance to change the scale of the values on the bar chart? Can someone help me please?
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14. Travis says:

    2009-03-28 at 06:41:45

    Can this be used with a textarea? I tried encompassing the textarea tag with code tags, placing the code tags inside the textarea around the lines I need syntax highlighted and also declaring the textarea with the class ie “js”.
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    2009-03-06 at 15:10:34

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