.. highlight:: javascript

Plugin Recipes

Below is a collection of useful plugin "recipes" that you might find helpful.

data-language

Let's say you'd like to track the language that was auto-detected via a data attribute <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Howto/Use_data_attributes>_. This might prove useful if you desired to add a dynamic label via CSS with :before, etc.

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hljs.addPlugin( {
  'after:highlightElement': ({el, result}) => {
    // move the language from the result into the dataset
    el.dataset.language = result.language }
})