Use Highlight.js in your Django templates, the Django way.
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Install using pip:
pip install django-highlightjs
Alternatively, you can download or clone this repo and call:
pip install -e . -
Add to
INSTALLED_APPSin yoursettings.py:'highlightjs', -
In your templates, load the
highlightjslibrary and use thehighlightjs_*tags.
The django-highlightjs has some pre-configured settings.
They can be modified by adding a dict variable called HIGHLIGHTJS in your settings.py and customizing the values you want.
The HIGHLIGHTJS dict variable contains these settings and defaults:
HIGHLIGHTJS = {
# The URL to the jQuery JavaScript file
'jquery_url': '//code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js',
# The highlight.js base URL
'base_url': '//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/11.7.0/highlight.min.js',
# The complete URL to the highlight.js CSS file
'css_url': '//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/11.7.0/styles/{0}.min.css',
# Include jQuery with highlight.js JavaScript (affects django-highlightjs template tags)
'include_jquery': False,
# The default used style.
'style': 'monokai_sublime',
}Usage in your settings.py:
HIGHLIGHTJS = {
'style': 'github',
}All other styles are available at highlight.js styles.
{% load highlightjs %}
<html>
<head>
<link href="{% highlightjs_css_url %}" rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
</head>
<body>
{# Highlight Syntax using Highlightjs #}
{% highlightjs_this code_to_highlight %}
{% highlightjs_this code_to_highlight 'python' %}
{% highlightjs_javascript jquery=1 %}
</body>
</html>- Python 3.10, 3.11, or 3.12
- Django >= 4.2
Contributions and pull requests for other Django and Python versions are welcome.
If you have found a bug or if you have a request for additional functionality, please use the issue tracker on GitHub.
You can use this under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for details.
My name is Mounir Messelmeni, you can reach me at messelmeni.mounir@gmail.com.