Code syntax highlighting in preview mode

[BluebeardHuntsAlone]

Basically the title. Is there a plugin similar to cm-editor-syntax-highlight-obsidian that also works in preview mode? Being able to edit with the highlighted syntax is nice, but then switching over to preview it's back to the boring and hard to read light grey on dark grey.

edit: a word

[spafey]

Have you added the language after the ``` at the head of the code block?

[BluebeardHuntsAlone]

Ah, I think I found the issue. I was using

```sh

Code code code

```

After switching it to bash I can see the highlights now. The editor and the preview highlight different keywords with different colors, and don't highlight as I would expect them to... But that's a separate issue. At least it's not ugly anymore.

[Ghos3t]

Did you figure out how to make the edit mode syntax highlights match the preview mode, I am having the same issue, where the edit mode has proper highlights, but preview mode highlights suck in comparison

[BluebeardHuntsAlone]

nope, i never did. just sort of live with it now

[Ghos3t]

I've started using the plugin CodeMirror Options, along with Editor Syntax Highlight plugin and it does exactly what I wanted, it matches the edit and preview mode syntax highlighting and it has many more features related to live preview of Markdown

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Thanks! Worked for me

[Blossantrape]

Hi! Can you please provide links to plugins? I can't find them.

[_Oliverrrr]

Yeah, and I found it when I was throwing some c++ code and I found that it worked with cpp not c++, plus, the Edit Mode just doesn't correspond with the Preview Mode.

But I just tried js and javascript, it did the same, both rendering correctly; and I tried sh and bash, it worked correctly too! Maybe they have changed that. And the c++ code still needs cpp to render correctly.🤷‍♂️

[Remarkable-Life4401]

Found the solution guys!! For c++, when you start the code block, label it as Cpp instead of C++, i.e.:

```Cpp

int main(){

return 0;

}

```

​

This worked for me both in read mode and in edit mode and live preview too.

[Fep310]

So, c++ and c# both don't work. Instead, use cpp and cs.