#summary Overview of SyntaxHighlighter.
#labels Featured

= Introduction =

The idea behind SyntaxHighlighter is to allow insertion of colored code snippets on a web page without relying on any server side scripts.

= Who it's for =

Intended primarily at for bloggers. However, I have seen some source web sites using it as their main display of source code.

= Who it's NOT for =

SyntaxHighlighter isn't for those looking for ability to edit highlighted code. 

*SyntaxHighlighter doesn't allow you to edit the source, it can't be made to do so and it will never do that.*

= Performance =

SyntaxHighlighter uses regular expressions to parse the text. It's not extremely fast, in fact, it's pretty slow. If you are trying to highlight a few dozens lines of code, you won't see any problems. Trying to highlight 10kb worth of text will result in JavaScript being aborted because of long execution time.