How do I put my HTML code so that highlight.js prettify it ?
I tried
<pre>
<code>
<!-- HTML Prettify -->
<div>
<pre class="pre-code-ception"><code> haha </code></pre>
</div>
</code>
</pre>
I did put at the end of my file :
<script type="text/javascript">
hljs.initHighlightingOnLoad();
</script>
But everything is shown as plain HTML.
Oh, I think I understand the problem. You need to escape the HTML within the <code>
element, otherwise it will be interpreted as HTML instead of text (you want the HTML displayed literally, not interpreted as part of the webpage structure).
Change every <
to <
and >
to >
, as well as any other special HTML characters in your code sample. (If you're generating the page on the fly, most languages have a utility function to escape the HTML for you.)