How can I highlight syntax like it appears on stackoverflow?

Question

Suppose I am writing a post and want to highlight only a couple of characters: like this. How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

HTML language includes a special tag for displaying inline code. To apply it to your text, switch to the 'Text' visual editor tab and place the <code> tag before your bit of code, and the </code> tag afterwards.

If you want to use the backtick ` character for highlighting code like you do on Stack Overflow, check out this plugin by Tom McFarlin.

Answer 2

you can create a shortcode for this

<?php
add_shortcode('highlight','ravs_hightlight');
function ravs_hightlight( $atts, $content=""){
  return '<span class="highlight">'.$content.'</span>';
}
?>

paste above code in functions.php.

use shortcode in wordpress editer like

[highlight]test for hightlight short code[/highlight]

your html output like

<span class="highlight">test for hightlight short code</span>

give some css to .highlight class

Important Link:

add_shortcode()

Answer 3

This subject has been successfully discussed here, and here.

Bungeshea is right, but you can also and simply add these tags in your text editor (not visual editor):

[sourcecode language='CorrespondingLanguage']
    //Your code goes here
[/sourcecode]