If we want to present code on a webpage then we have some different tools that can help us by coloring the code according to the syntax. The options we have is basically one of two things, server or client-based. I have chosen to use a client based script because I don’t want to “pollute” the outputted html code.

Prettify is a javascript which is released under the license Apache License 2.0. The code can be downloaded at Google code. I’ve chosen to use this script over other equivalents because I feel it’s more flexible, stable and faster.
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