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+Library API
+===========
+
+Highlight.js exports a few functions as methods of the ``hljs`` object.
+
+
+``highlight(name, value, ignore_illegals, continuation)``
+---------------------------------------------------------
+
+Core highlighting function.
+Accepts a language name, or an alias, and a string with the code to highlight.
+The ``ignore_illegals`` parameter, when present and evaluates to a true value,
+forces highlighting to finish even in case of detecting illegal syntax for the
+language instead of throwing an exception.
+The ``continuation`` is an optional mode stack representing unfinished parsing.
+When present, the function will restart parsing from this state instead of
+initializing a new one.
+Returns an object with the following properties:
+
+* ``language``: language name, same as the one passed into a function, returned for consistency with ``highlightAuto``
+* ``relevance``: integer value
+* ``value``: HTML string with highlighting markup
+* ``top``: top of the current mode stack
+
+
+``highlightAuto(value, languageSubset)``
+----------------------------------------
+
+Highlighting with language detection.
+Accepts a string with the code to highlight and an optional array of language names and aliases restricting detection to only those languages. The subset can also be set with ``configure``, but the local parameter overrides the option if set.
+Returns an object with the following properties:
+
+* ``language``: detected language
+* ``relevance``: integer value
+* ``value``: HTML string with highlighting markup
+* ``second_best``: object with the same structure for second-best heuristically detected language, may be absent
+
+
+``fixMarkup(value)``
+--------------------
+
+Post-processing of the highlighted markup. Currently consists of replacing indentation TAB characters and using ``<br>`` tags instead of new-line characters. Options are set globally with ``configure``.
+
+Accepts a string with the highlighted markup.
+
+
+``highlightBlock(block)``
+-------------------------
+
+Applies highlighting to a DOM node containing code.
+
+This function is the one to use to apply highlighting dynamically after page load
+or within initialization code of third-party Javascript frameworks.
+
+The function uses language detection by default but you can specify the language
+in the ``class`` attribute of the DOM node. See the :doc:`class reference
+</css-classes-reference>` for all available language names and aliases.
+
+
+``configure(options)``
+----------------------
+
+Configures global options:
+
+* ``tabReplace``: a string used to replace TAB characters in indentation.
+* ``useBR``: a flag to generate ``<br>`` tags instead of new-line characters in the output, useful when code is marked up using a non-``<pre>`` container.
+* ``classPrefix``: a string prefix added before class names in the generated markup, used for backwards compatibility with stylesheets.
+* ``languages``: an array of language names and aliases restricting auto detection to only these languages.
+
+Accepts an object representing options with the values to updated. Other options don't change
+::
+
+ hljs.configure({
+ tabReplace: ' ', // 4 spaces
+ classPrefix: '' // don't append class prefix
+ // … other options aren't changed
+ })
+ hljs.initHighlighting();
+
+
+``initHighlighting()``
+----------------------
+
+Applies highlighting to all ``<pre><code>..</code></pre>`` blocks on a page.
+
+
+
+``initHighlightingOnLoad()``
+----------------------------
+
+Attaches highlighting to the page load event.
+
+
+``registerLanguage(name, language)``
+------------------------------------
+
+Adds new language to the library under the specified name. Used mostly internally.
+
+* ``name``: a string with the name of the language being registered
+* ``language``: a function that returns an object which represents the
+ language definition. The function is passed the ``hljs`` object to be able
+ to use common regular expressions defined within it.
+
+
+``listLanguages()``
+----------------------------
+
+Returns the languages names list.
+
+
+
+.. _getLanguage:
+
+
+``getLanguage(name)``
+---------------------
+
+Looks up a language by name or alias.
+
+Returns the language object if found, ``undefined`` otherwise.