Feedback - Enhance Syntax Highlighting on the course content

[laxmariappan]

Type of feedback

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Description

Can we enhance the syntax highlighting on the training content?

Step-by-step reproduction instructions (optional)

Go to https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson/accessing-wordpress-data/
You can view a couple of code blocks
They have both JS and PHP code.
But as a reader I find it hard to differentiate code

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Without highlighting on the page:

Demo of syntax highlighting

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[jonathanbossenger]

@laxmariappan thanks for logging this.

This is a known issue that's related to the current classic theme that Learn.WordPress.org uses.

As we're busy developing a new block theme, once the new theme launches, this issue should be resolved.

cc @adamwoodnz it would be great if we could confirm that the code block syntax highlighting works as expected for lessons when the new theme is developed.

[adamwoodnz]

As we're busy developing a new block theme, once the new theme launches, this issue should be resolved.

cc @adamwoodnz it would be great if we could confirm that the code block syntax highlighting works as expected for lessons when the new theme is developed.

Thanks, I'll add it to the redesign project.

[StevenDufresne]

@jonathanbossenger I updated the code block language on the code block in the lesson plan and it looks like its working.

Is there something different expected?

Settings	After Save

Video: https://d.pr/i/Ztmy5K

[jonathanbossenger]

Ah, my apologies folks, I was confusing the ability to highlight lines of code within the code block (which we don't have), with the ability to show syntax highlighting for specific languages, which we do have.

Thanks for picking this up @StevenDufresne, I'll make a note to update the code snippets in that course, and then close this ticket once that's done.