Would you prefer highlighted code or the background if you were asked to choose?

Sorry about asking too many questions

I’ll probably ask you now for permission to use this idea on my posted scripts on my blog.

Anyway, nevertheless a cool post with a couple of helpful tips as well!

Thanks man

LeoH

You should have entry with full rss

Thanks, but I prefer to only send excerpts only to the feed. I figure if someone wants the whole article they can pay me a visit.

What I see is

pre - sits smack bang over the join of the first grey line and the second white line.
background - sits in the third grey line but it’s a little high. For example the dot on top of the i in images is in the white line above.

It’s not until I get to overflow that it sits fully on a line and that is the 14th line and it’s white.

Any help? If not email me and I’ll send you a screenshot. I’ll try it on other machines and browsers too if need be.

I use a Wordpress plugin that offers a downloadable version of the code I post, as well as showing the code (with line numbers) and striped background, in monospaced font. Can I get a Green Beast approval? (Shameless plug.)

[…] I like the idea of the striped background (although it seems like it’d be hard to ensure the background lines match the text cross-browser)

If you specify the font-size instead of letting the browser’s monospace default take control it’s a little more consistent across browsers. Of course it does depend on the user’s font size so it’s not at all a sophisticated solution. I guess it’s a “95% solution,” to those who support images: Visually helpful to 95%; Visually neutral to the remaining 5% (since with larger text it’s non-distracting background).