Wednesday 20 March 2013

How To Show Code on Blog

This is very common question for every new on Blogger that "How to show code snippet in proper shape"
Here are four simple steps to do it.

Step 1. Login in your blogger
Step 2. You can keep a backup for your existing template clicking a Restore/Backup Button

Step 3. Open Template in Edit mode as follows:


Step 4. In this you need to add some CSS code as follows:

A) Add following code before </head>
<script src="http://syntaxhighlighter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Scripts/shCore.js" type="text/javascript">
<script src='http://syntaxhighlighter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Scripts/shBrushCpp.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://syntaxhighlighter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Scripts/shBrushCSharp.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://syntaxhighlighter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Scripts/shBrushCss.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://syntaxhighlighter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Scripts/shBrushDelphi.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://syntaxhighlighter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Scripts/shBrushJava.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://syntaxhighlighter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Scripts/shBrushJScript.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://syntaxhighlighter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Scripts/shBrushPhp.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://syntaxhighlighter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Scripts/shBrushPython.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://syntaxhighlighter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Scripts/shBrushRuby.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://syntaxhighlighter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Scripts/shBrushSql.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://syntaxhighlighter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Scripts/shBrushVb.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://syntaxhighlighter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Scripts/shBrushXml.js' type='text/javascript'/>
B) Add following code before</body>

C) Add following code before ]]>
padding: 0px;
 color: #5C5C5C;
}

.dp-highlighter.nogutter ol,
.dp-highlighter.nogutter ol li
{
 list-style: none !important;
 margin-left: 0px !important;
}

.dp-highlighter ol li,
.dp-highlighter .columns div
{
 list-style: decimal-leading-zero; /* better look for others, override cascade from OL */
 list-style-position: outside !important;
 border-left: 3px solid #6CE26C;
 background-color: #F8F8F8;
 color: #5C5C5C;
 padding: 0 3px 0 10px !important;
 margin: 0 !important;
 line-height: 14px;
}

.dp-highlighter.nogutter ol li,
.dp-highlighter.nogutter .columns div
{
 border: 0;
}

.dp-highlighter .columns
{
 background-color: #F8F8F8;
 color: gray;
 overflow: hidden;
 width: 100%;
}

.dp-highlighter .columns div
{
 padding-bottom: 5px;
}

.dp-highlighter ol li.alt
{
 background-color: #FFF;
 color: inherit;
}

.dp-highlighter ol li span
{
 color: black;
 background-color: inherit;
}

/* Adjust some properties when collapsed */

.dp-highlighter.collapsed ol
{
 margin: 0px;
}

.dp-highlighter.collapsed ol li
{
 display: none;
}

/* Additional modifications when in print-view */

.dp-highlighter.printing
{
 border: none;
}

.dp-highlighter.printing .tools
{
 display: none !important;
}

.dp-highlighter.printing li
{
 display: list-item !important;
}

/* Styles for the tools */

.dp-highlighter .tools
{
 padding: 3px 8px 3px 10px;
 font: 9px Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 color: silver;
 background-color: #f8f8f8;
 padding-bottom: 10px;
 border-left: 3px solid #6CE26C;
}

.dp-highlighter.nogutter .tools
{
 border-left: 0;
}

.dp-highlighter.collapsed .tools
{
 border-bottom: 0;
}

.dp-highlighter .tools a
{
 font-size: 9px;
 color: #a0a0a0;
 background-color: inherit;
 text-decoration: none;
 margin-right: 10px;
}

.dp-highlighter .tools a:hover
{
 color: red;
 background-color: inherit;
 text-decoration: underline;
}

/* About dialog styles */

.dp-about { background-color: #fff; color: #333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; }
.dp-about table { width: 100%; height: 100%; font-size: 11px; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif !important; }
.dp-about td { padding: 10px; vertical-align: top; }
.dp-about .copy { border-bottom: 1px solid #ACA899; height: 95%; }
.dp-about .title { color: red; background-color: inherit; font-weight: bold; }
.dp-about .para { margin: 0 0 4px 0; }
.dp-about .footer { background-color: #ECEADB; color: #333; border-top: 1px solid #fff; text-align: right; }
.dp-about .close { font-size: 11px; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif !important; background-color: #ECEADB; color: #333; width: 60px; height: 22px; }

/* Language specific styles */

.dp-highlighter .comment, .dp-highlighter .comments { color: #008200; background-color: inherit; }
.dp-highlighter .string { color: blue; background-color: inherit; }
.dp-highlighter .keyword { color: #069; font-weight: bold; background-color: inherit; }
.dp-highlighter .preprocessor { color: gray; background-color: inherit; }

Now when you write any blog write in compose mode and then hit on HTML mode and  write <pre class="cpp" name="code"></pre>
around the code which you want to show on blog with style.

Special Thanks to Amit Jain for letting me know this information.

Sandeep