hugoDocs/content/functions/highlight.md

title	linktitle	description	godocref	date	publishdate	lastmod	categories	tags	signature	workson	hugoversion	relatedfuncs	deprecated
highlight	highlight	Takes a string of code and language declaration and uses Pygments to return syntax-highlighted HTML with inline-styles.		2017-02-01	2017-02-01	2017-02-01	functions	highlighting pygments code blocks syntax					false

highlight takes a string of code and a language and then uses Pygments to return the syntax highlighted code in HTML.

highlight is used in Hugo's built-in highlight shortcode.

See Installing Hugo for more information on Pygments or Syntax Highlighting for more options on how to add syntax highlighting to your code blocks with Hugo.