We don’t have proper syntax highlighting for Solidity code blocks. I tried highlightjs-solidity but for some reason it didn’t work.
Has anyone seen Solidity syntax highlighting in a Discourse forum so we can ask how they set it up?
Have you tried asking around in https://ethereum-magicians.org/?
Good suggestion but there doesn’t seem to be Solidity highlighting there either.
What was the solution as there is some highlighting in the forum?
I didn’t see Solidity as one of the languages in https://highlightjs.org/
pragma solidity ^0.5.0;
contract DoggoToken is ERC20, ERC20Detailed, ERC20Mintable, ERC20Burnable {
constructor(
string name,
string symbol,
uint8 decimals
)
ERC20Burnable()
ERC20Mintable()
ERC20Detailed(name, symbol, decimals)
ERC20()
public
{}
}
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@abcoathup No solution yet! 
The highlighting that you see is a random one that highlightjs is detecting. It seems to be C#.
I would love for us to fix this. We should try highlightjs-solidity again. I may have been doing something wrong.
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I asked the creator of highlightjs-solidity https://twitter.com/abcoathup/status/1127827530432385024 but he wasn’t able to advise.
I have asked in the meta discourse. https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-solidity-syntax-highlighting/117774 the response was to do a PR to highlightjs to get Solidity added as a language and then Discourse would add it to an update.
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highlightjs-solidity needs an update
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It seems like there's an alternative. (Ignore that the tityle says "Hack", the link is to the comment with the official way to do it.)
This is what I tried back then but couldn't get to work. It's worth trying it once more IMO.
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I have started on a PR for highlightjs Issue #2047 to add the Solidity language.
According to a maintainer of highlightjs
https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/pull/2051#issuecomment-499711780
Solidity should stay in it’s own repowe are splitting out the languages.
I haven't found out how to get the https://github.com/highlightjs/highlightjs-solidity/ repo picked up by Discourse.
Discourse support have provided instructions on how to do this:
As an aside haltman-at has updated the syntax highlighting in the hightlightjs-solidity repo https://github.com/highlightjs/highlightjs-solidity/pull/5
I have installed the custom theme-component and enabled on the Light and Dark Theme.
We now have Solidity syntax highlighting.
pragma solidity ^0.5.0;
import "openzeppelin-solidity/contracts/token/ERC721/ERC721Full.sol";
import "openzeppelin-solidity/contracts/drafts/Counters.sol";
contract GameItem is ERC721Full {
using Counters for Counters.Counter;
Counters.Counter private _tokenIds;
constructor() ERC721Full("GameItem", "ITM") public {
}
function awardItem(address player, string memory tokenURI) public returns (uint256) {
_tokenIds.increment();
uint256 newItemId = _tokenIds.current();
_mint(player, newItemId);
_setTokenURI(newItemId, tokenURI);
return newItemId;
}
}
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Where has this been all my life!
Any chance for a solidity FORMATTER for Vscode? 
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I created a new topic: Wanted: Solidity formatter for Visual Studio Code
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I have turned on syntax highlighting for indented code blocks too.
Setting: Force apply code highlighting to all preformatted code blocks even when they didn’t explicitly specify the language.
Example of indented code
import "openzeppelin-solidity/contracts/token/ERC721/ERC721Full.sol";
import "openzeppelin-solidity/contracts/drafts/Counters.sol";
contract GameItem is ERC721Full {
using Counters for Counters.Counter;
Counters.Counter private _tokenIds;
constructor() ERC721Full("GameItem", "ITM") public {
}
function awardItem(address player, string memory tokenURI) public returns (uint256) {
_tokenIds.increment();
uint256 newItemId = _tokenIds.current();
_mint(player, newItemId);
_setTokenURI(newItemId, tokenURI);
return newItemId;
}
}
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