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.
To display triple backticks in a fenced code block, wrap them inside quadruple backticks.
```` ``` Look! You can see my backticks. ``` ````
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.