WordPress SyntaxHighlighter Shortcode Parameters and Language Syntax

SyntaxHighlighter is a WordPress plugin which allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without losing it’s formatting or making any manual changes. There are some attributes and language syntax I need to remember whenever I want create a new tutorial but it’s not really easy for me to remember all of them.

So, I post all Shortcode Parameters and supported language syntax for a quick reference.

Shortcode Parameters

• lang or language — The language syntax to highlight with. You can alternately just use that as the tag.
• autolinks — Toggle automatic URL linking.
• classname — Add an additional CSS class to the code box.
• collapse — Toggle collapsing the code box by default, requiring a click to expand it. Good for large code posts.
• firstline — An interger specifying what number the first line should be (for the line numbering).
• gutter — Toggle the left-side line numbering.
• highlight — A comma-sperated list of line numbers to highlight. You can also specify a range. Example: 2,5-10,12
• htmlscript — Toggle highlighting any extra HTML/XML. Good for when you’re mixing HTML/XML with another language, such as having PHP inside an HTML web page. The above preview has it enabled for example. This only works with certain languages.
• light — Toggle light mode which disables the gutter and toolbar all at once.
• padlinenumbers — Controls line number padding. Valid values are false (no padding), true (automatic padding), or an integer (forced padding).
• title (v3 only) — Sets some text to show up before the code. Very useful when combined with the collapse parameter.
• toolbar — Toggle the toolbar (buttons in v2, the about question mark in v3)
• wraplines (v2 only) — Toggle line wrapping.

Some example shortcodes:

• [php]your code here[/php]
• [css autolinks="false" classname="myclass" collapse="false" firstline="1" gutter="true" highlight="1-3,6,9" htmlscript="false" light="false" padlinenumbers="false" smarttabs="true" tabsize="4" toolbar="true" title="example-filename.php"]your code here[/css]
• [code lang="js"]your code here[/code]
• [sourcecode language="plain"]your code here[/sourcecode]

Supported language syntax:

Brush name	Brush aliases
ActionScript3	as3, actionscript3
Bash/shell	bash, shell
ColdFusion	cf, coldfusion
C#	c-sharp, csharp
C++	cpp, c
CSS	css
Delphi	delphi, pas, pascal
Diff	diff, patch
Erlang	erl, erlang
Groovy	groovy
JavaScript	js, jscript, javascript
Java	java
JavaFX	jfx, javafx
Perl	perl, pl
PHP	php
Plain Text	plain, text
PowerShell	ps, powershell
Python	py, python
Ruby	rails, ror, ruby
Scala	scala
SQL	sql
Visual Basic	vb, vbnet
XML	xml, xhtml, xslt, html, xhtml