How to have syntax highlighting in wordpress.com blogs?

April 21, 2022 by Tarik Billa

WordPress.com uses Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter so all you need to do is use the right shortcode ex:

[code language="css"]
#button {
font-weight: bold;
border: 2px solid #fff;
}
[/code]

which gives you something like this:

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it has more features and you can see a list of supported languages at http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/