4 posts tagged with "Syntax Highlighting"

Confluence's built-in code block macro is limited — it supports roughly 30 languages, has no dark theme, and lacks basic features like copy buttons and collapsible sections. If your team writes documentation with code snippets, you need something better.

This guide shows how to add a VS Code-grade code editor to Confluence with syntax highlighting for 85+ languages, automatic dark/light theme detection, and one-click copy buttons.

Confluence code block themes let you customize how code appears in your documentation. The built-in code macro offers limited theme support, but third-party apps bring dark mode, syntax highlighting, and VS Code-like editing to Confluence.

This guide compares the best Confluence code block apps for syntax highlighting, including Modern Code Blocks, Better Code Macro, and Prism Syntax Highlighter. Learn which one fits your team's needs for Confluence code block themes, language support, and developer experience.

Developers write in Markdown. Confluence doesn't. Every engineering team that moves from GitHub wikis, README files, or Hugo docs to Confluence hits the same wall — the rich text editor feels slow, and there's no way to write in the format they already know.

Several marketplace apps bring Markdown to Confluence, but they take different approaches. Some embed Markdown as macros. Others import Markdown files. A few offer live editing. We built Enhanced Markdown for Confluence to give teams a full WYSIWYG Markdown editor with code highlighting, charts, UML diagrams, and table merging — all inside the Confluence page editor. In this post we compare it against every alternative.