Syntax Highlighting

If you really want to spruce up your code blocks, you can denote a specific language for syntax highlighting, by typing the name of the language you want the code block to expect right after the first three backticks beginning your code block. An example…

There are many different languages in place of Markdown that Discord’s syntax highlighting support. Each different language has its own approach to highlight-able syntax. Note that you won’t be able to view syntax highlighting on the mobile app.

Take from the discord client, these are the supported highlight languages.

"1c"
 "4d"
 "abnf"
 "accesslog"
 "ada"
 "arduino"
 "ino"
 "armasm"
 "arm"
 "avrasm"
 "actionscript"
 "as"
 "ass"
 "ssa"
 "alan"
 "ansi"
 "i"
 "log"
 "ln"
 "angelscript"
 "asc"
 "apache"
 "apacheconf"
 "applescript"
 "osascript"
 "arcade"
 "asciidoc"
 "adoc"
 "aspectj"
 "autohotkey"
 "autoit"
 "awk"
 "mawk"
 "nawk"
 "gawk"
 "bash"
 "sh"
 "zsh"
 "basic"
 "bbcode"
 "blade"
 "bnf"
 "brainfuck"
 "bf"
 "csharp"
 "cs"
 "c"
 "h"
 "cpp"
 "hpp"
 "cc"
 "hh"
 "c++"
 "h++"
 "cxx"
 "hxx"
 "cal"
 "cos"
 "cls"
 "cmake"
 "cmake.in"
 "coq"
 "csp"
 "css"
 "csv"
 "capnproto"
 "capnp"
 "chaos"
 "kaos"
 "chapel"
 "chpl"
 "cisco"
 "clojure"
 "clj"
 "coffeescript"
 "coffee"
 "cson"
 "iced"
 "cpc"
 "crmsh"
 "crm"
 "pcmk"
 "crystal"
 "cr"
 "cypher"
 "d"
 "dns"
 "zone"
 "bind"
 "dos"
 "bat"
 "cmd"
 "dart"
 "delphi"
 "dpr"
 "dfm"
 "pas"
 "pascal"
 "freepascal"
 "lazarus"
 "lpr"
 "lfm"
 "diff"
 "patch"
 "django"
 "jinja"
 "dockerfile"
 "docker"
 "dsconfig"
 "dts"
 "dust"
 "dst"
 "dylan"
 "ebnf"
 "elixir"
 "ex"
 "elm"
 "erlang"
 "erl"
 "extempore"
 "xtlang"
 "xtm"
 "fsharp"
 "fs"
 "fix"
 "fortran"
 "f90"
 "f95"
 "gcode"
 "nc"
 "gams"
 "gms"
 "gauss"
 "gss"
 "godot"
 "gdscript"
 "gherkin"
 "gn"
 "gni"
 "go"
 "golang"
 "gf"
 "golo"
 "gololang"
 "gradle"
 "groovy"
 "xml"
 "html"
 "xhtml"
 "rss"
 "atom"
 "xjb"
 "xsd"
 "xsl"
 "plist"
 "svg"
 "http"
 "https"
 "haml"
 "handlebars"
 "hbs"
 "html.hbs"
 "html.handlebars"
 "haskell"
 "hs"
 "haxe"
 "hx"
 "hy"
 "hylang"
 "ini"
 "toml"
 "inform7"
 "i7"
 "irpf90"
 "json"
 "java"
 "jsp"
 "javascript"
 "js"
 "jsx"
 "jolie"
 "iol"
 "ol"
 "julia"
 "julia-repl"
 "kotlin"
 "kt"
 "tex"
 "leaf"
 "lean"
 "lasso"
 "ls"
 "lassoscript"
 "less"
 "ldif"
 "lisp"
 "livecodeserver"
 "livescript"
 "lock"
 "ls"
 "lua"
 "makefile"
 "mk"
 "mak"
 "make"
 "markdown"
 "md"
 "mkdown"
 "mkd"
 "mathematica"
 "mma"
 "wl"
 "matlab"
 "maxima"
 "mel"
 "mercury"
 "mirc"
 "mrc"
 "mizar"
 "mojolicious"
 "monkey"
 "moonscript"
 "moon"
 "n1ql"
 "nsis"
 "never"
 "nginx"
 "nginxconf"
 "nim"
 "nimrod"
 "nix"
 "ocl"
 "ocaml"
 "ml"
 "objectivec"
 "mm"
 "objc"
 "obj-c"
 "obj-c++"
 "objective-c++"
 "glsl"
 "openscad"
 "scad"
 "ruleslanguage"
 "oxygene"
 "pf"
 "pf.conf"
 "php"
 "php3"
 "php4"
 "php5"
 "php6"
 "php7"
 "parser3"
 "perl"
 "pl"
 "pm"
 "plaintext"
 "txt"
 "text"
 "pony"
 "pgsql"
 "postgres"
 "postgresql"
 "powershell"
 "ps"
 "ps1"
 "processing"
 "prolog"
 "properties"
 "protobuf"
 "puppet"
 "pp"
 "python"
 "py"
 "gyp"
 "profile"
 "python-repl"
 "pycon"
 "k"
 "kdb"
 "qml"
 "r"
 "cshtml"
 "razor"
 "razor-cshtml"
 "reasonml"
 "re"
 "redbol"
 "rebol"
 "red"
 "red-system"
 "rib"
 "rsl"
 "graph"
 "instances"
 "robot"
 "rf"
 "rpm-specfile"
 "rpm"
 "spec"
 "rpm-spec"
 "specfile"
 "ruby"
 "rb"
 "gemspec"
 "podspec"
 "thor"
 "irb"
 "rust"
 "rs"
 "SAS"
 "sas"
 "scss"
 "sql"
 "p21"
 "step"
 "stp"
 "scala"
 "scheme"
 "scilab"
 "sci"
 "shexc"
 "shell"
 "console"
 "smali"
 "smalltalk"
 "st"
 "sml"
 "ml"
 "solidity"
 "sol"
 "stan"
 "stanfuncs"
 "stata"
 "iecst"
 "scl"
 "structured-text"
 "stylus"
 "styl"
 "subunit"
 "supercollider"
 "sc"
 "srt"
 "svelte"
 "swift"
 "tcl"
 "tk"
 "terraform"
 "tf"
 "hcl"
 "tap"
 "thrift"
 "tp"
 "tsql"
 "ttml"
 "twig"
 "craftcms"
 "typescript"
 "ts"
 "tsx"
 "unicorn-rails-log"
 "vbnet"
 "vb"
 "vba"
 "vbscript"
 "vbs"
 "vhdl"
 "vala"
 "verilog"
 "v"
 "vim"
 "vtt"
 "axapta"
 "x++"
 "x86asm"
 "xl"
 "tao"
 "xquery"
 "xpath"
 "xq"
 "yml"
 "yaml"
 "zephir"
 "zep"