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I'm currently looking for a Syntax Highlighter (http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/) that would enable me to format Java source code while presenting it in the UI. But I doubt if the Syntax Highlighter that I mentioned would do this.

I have some source code stored in the database which could be in a single line like this:

I want a library or a tool that would format this. I in fact wrote a small logic that would do it for me. I guess I covered most of the cases, be it however complex or how many ever loops it has, it formats and prints the formatted code perfectly. But now I would need this to work for other programming languages as well (read Scala, Ruby etc). I'm now looking for a strategy that would help me to achieve this with little effort. Should I consider storing the formatting information along with the source code in the database like this?

Or should I use some CSS to get the formatting right? How is it done here at the ranch? When I use the code tags, is it formatted?

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What should this formatter do that the one you mentioned doesn't? (Which is, by the way, what is used in this forum software.)

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Ulf Dittmer wrote:What should this formatter do that the one you mentioned doesn't? (Which is, by the way, what is used in this forum software.)

I thought I mentioned this in my post above. The formatter that I'm looking for should take a line of String (which is the source code in a single line), format it with proper indents for it to be presented in the UI. I'm not sure if Syntax Highlighter does this. I'm just about to download it and try it for myself.

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Here is what I tried with the Syntax Highlighter which made it clear to me that it is just a highlighter and not a formatter!

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
	<title>SyntaxHighlighter Build Test Page</title>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shCore.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shBrushBash.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shBrushCpp.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shBrushCSharp.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shBrushCss.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shBrushDelphi.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shBrushDiff.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shBrushGroovy.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shBrushJava.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shBrushJScript.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shBrushPhp.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shBrushPlain.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shBrushPython.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shBrushRuby.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shBrushScala.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shBrushSql.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shBrushVb.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/shBrushXml.js"></script>
	<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="styles/shCore.css"/>
	<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="styles/shThemeDefault.css"/>
	<script type="text/javascript">
		SyntaxHighlighter.config.clipboardSwf = 'scripts/clipboard.swf';
		SyntaxHighlighter.all();
	</script>
</head>

<body >
<h1>SyntaxHihglighter Test</h1>
<p>This is a test file to insure that everything is working well.</p>

<pre class="brush: java;">
public static void main(String[] args) {
int x=10; 
System.out.println(x);
}
</pre>
</html>

Here is the resultant output!

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