Formatting code snippets for blogging on Blogger

I've created a blog post entry which explains how to add code syntax highlighting to blogger using the syntaxhighlighter 2.0

Here's my blog post:

http://www.craftyfella.com/2010/01/syntax-highlighting-with-blogger-engine.html

I hope it helps you guys.. I'm quite impressed with what it can do.

Above Links stopped working. Try using http://hilite.me/

This css script might be useful to all - It is not for syntax highlighting but works well for presenting the source code in original format :

 <pre style="font-family: Andale Mono, Lucida Console, Monaco, fixed, monospace; 
                color: #000000; background-color: #eee;
                font-size: 12px; border: 1px dashed #999999;
                line-height: 14px; padding: 5px; 
                overflow: auto; width: 100%">
       <code style="color:#000000;word-wrap:normal;">

            <<<<<<<YOUR CODE HERE>>>>>>>

       </code>
 </pre>

How to use :

1. Paste this snippet in text editor,
2. paste your code in <<<<<<>>>>>> block.
3. Copy all and
4. paste to HTML view in blogger(or any other) post editor.

BENEFITS : Simple and easy to use, less configuration, easy to reconfigure, no extra software

For my blog I use http://hilite.me/ to format source code. It supports lots of formats and outputs rather clean html. But if you have lots of code snippets then you have to do a lot of copy paste. For formatting Python code I've also used Pygments (blog post).

Easiest way to share code is with a public gist. Just write one up and paste in the embed code. Easy peasy.

http://gist.github.com

To address the search engine issue, one can use hidden div on the page as simple as:

<div style="display:none"> content </div>