Posts Tagged ‘code inclusion’

Include code in wordpress posts, the easy way

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Although there are different plugins out there to help you display your code, there is a very simple solution as well. It does not provide code colouring, linenumbers and all that, but it does create a nice readable non-overflowing area to display your code.

Simply put this in your style.css:

div.codewrapper {
border: 1px solid #DDD;
max-height:200px;
overflow:auto;
width:450px;
height: expression(this.scrollHeight > 200 ? “200px” : “auto”);
white-space:pre;
line-height: 100%;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
font-size:10px;

}

Now if you create a div with class codewrapper, it will look like this:

Although there are different plugins out there to help you display your code, there is a very simple solution as well. It does not provide code colouring, linenumbers and all that, but it does create a nice readable non-overflowing area to display your code.

Simply put this in your style.css:

div.codewrapper {
border: 1px solid #DDD;
max-height:200px;
overflow:auto;
width:450px;
height: expression(this.scrollHeight > 200 ? “200px” : “auto”);
white-space:pre;
line-height: 100%;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
font-size:10px;

}