How is syntax highlighting expected to work?

[jskeet]

I'm using Markdown like this:

```csharp
// Some C# code
```

And it generates HTML like this:

<pre>
  <code class="language-csharp">
  // Some C# code
  </code>
</pre>

That's great in terms of CommonMark.NET parsing - it definitely understands my Markdown properly. But the output isn't syntax-highlighted as I'd like it to be. Is there a known syntax-highlighting library/stylesheet which works well with this? It doesn't seem to be what Prettify expects, for example.

Apologies if this has already been covered somewhere - I haven't found it in the issues.

[Knagis]

highlight.js supports this syntax for code blocks out of the box.

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/VPdOVo

[jskeet]

Great, thanks. I now need to sort out some other aspects of my CSS, but this is great :)

[tiesont]

Prism.js will also work: http://prismjs.com/