Fenced code blocks
You can create fenced code blocks by placing triple backticks ```
before and after the code block. We recommend placing a blank line before and after code blocks to make the raw formatting easier to read.
``` function test() { console.log("notice the blank line before this function?"); } ```
Tip: To preserve your formatting within a list, make sure to indent non-fenced code blocks by eight spaces.
Syntax highlighting
You can add an optional language identifier to enable syntax highlighting in your fenced code block.
For example, to syntax highlight Ruby code:
```ruby
require 'redcarpet'
markdown = Redcarpet.new("Hello World!")
puts markdown.to_html
```
We use Linguist to perform language detection and to select third-party grammars for syntax highlighting. You can find out which keywords are valid in the languages YAML file.