Modern Syntax Highlighter with CSS Custom Highlight API
The <syntax-highlight> is a web component that tokenizes source code into styled text using the CSS Custom Highlight API. It relies on the well-established Prism.js library for language parsing but takes a modern approach to rendering. Instead of wrapping every token in a <span> tag, it applies styles through a new, more performant browser API. This keeps the DOM clean and lightweight. The…















