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[Highlight.js + line number] This snippet adds line number support to Highlight.js. Besides, special css trick is applied to stop the line numbers from being selected and copied. #tags: highlight, lepton
import HighlightJS from 'highlight.js'
createHighlightedCodeBlock (content, language) {
let lineNumber = 0
const highlightedContent = HighlightJS.highlightAuto(content, [language]).value
/* Highlight.js wraps comment blocks inside <span class="hljs-comment"></span>.
However, when the multi-line comment block is broken down into diffirent
table rows, only the first row, which is appended by the <span> tag, is
highlighted. The following code fixes it by appending <span> to each line
of the comment block. */
const commentPattern = /<span class="hljs-comment">(.|\n)*?<\/span>/g
const adaptedHighlightedContent = highlightedContent.replace(commentPattern, data => {
return data.replace(/\r?\n/g, () => {
return '\n<span class="hljs-comment">'
})
})
const contentTable = adaptedHighlightedContent.split(/\r?\n/).map(lineContent => {
return `<tr>
<td class='line-number' data-pseudo-content=${++lineNumber}></td>
<td>${lineContent}</td>
</tr>`
}).join('')
return `<pre><code><table class='code-table'>${contentTable}</table></code></pre>`
}
/*
* Transform the snippet from plain text to html markup which includes line number
* support. This method returns an object that can be consumed by a React component.
* @content plain text for snippet
* @language the language for the snippet
*/
createMarkup (content, language) {
return { __html: this.createHighlightedCodeBlock(content, language) }
}
// Consumed by React
// <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={ this.createMarkup(content, language) }/>
.line-number {
text-align: right;
padding-right: 20px;
display: inline-block;
color: rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
width: 40px;
font-size: 11px;
font-family: Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, Courier, monospace;
}
/* Technique to disable line numbers from being selected and copied.
Checkout this post for more details http://codepen.io/danoc/pen/ByGKZv */
[data-pseudo-content]::before,
[data-pseudo-content--before]::before,
[data-pseudo-content--after]::after {
content: attr(data-pseudo-content);
}
@mberneti
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well done

@arenn23
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arenn23 commented Jul 1, 2021

Very well done. Thank you so much.

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