Syntax highlighting in jekyll using redcarpet

Question

I\'m trying to get code highlighting to work for a simple blog built with jekyll. I want to be able to do code highlighting within posts written in markdown so I enabled red

Answer 1

I like to share the solution as I faced and it took much time to get rid of this issue. Default syntax highlighting is very poor in Jekyll. Like David said, You really need some CSS magic. Check this gist to solve the syntax highlighting problem.