# Autumn
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Syntax highlighter powered by Tree-sitter and Neovim themes.
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<a href="https://autumnus.dev">https://autumnus.dev</a>
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## Features
- 🌳 70+ languages with tree-sitter parsing
- 🎨 120+ Neovim themes
- 📝 HTML output with inline styles or CSS classes
- 🖥️ Terminal output with ANSI colors
- 🔍 Language auto-detection
- 🎯 Customizable formatting options
- ✨ Line highlighting with custom styling
- 🎁 Custom HTML wrappers for code blocks
## Installation
```elixir
def deps do
[
{:autumn, "~> 0.5"}
]
end
```
## Usage
### Basic Usage (HTML Inline)
```elixir
iex> Autumn.highlight!("Atom.to_string(:elixir)", language: "elixir")
~s|<pre class="athl" style="color: #abb2bf; background-color: #282c34;"><code class="language-elixir" translate="no" tabindex="0"><div class="line" data-line="1"><span style="color: #e5c07b;">Atom</span><span style="color: #56b6c2;">.</span><span style="color: #61afef;">to_string</span><span style="color: #c678dd;">(</span><span style="color: #e06c75;">:elixir</span><span style="color: #c678dd;">)</span>
</span></code></pre>|
```
See the HTML Linked and Terminal formatters below for more options.
### Language Auto-detection
```elixir
iex> Autumn.highlight!("#!/usr/bin/env bash\nID=1")
~s|<pre class="athl" style="color: #abb2bf; background-color: #282c34;"><code class="language-bash" translate="no" tabindex="0"><div class="line" data-line="1"><span style="color: #c678dd;">#!/usr/bin/env bash</span>
</div><div class="line" data-line="2"><span style="color: #d19a66;">ID</span><span style="color: #56b6c2;">=</span><span style="color: #d19a66;">1</span>
</span></code></pre>|
```
### Themes
Themes are sourced from popular Neovim colorschemes.
Use `Autumn.available_themes/0` to list all available themes. You can specify a theme by name in the formatter options, or use `Autumn.Theme.get/1` to get a specific theme struct if you need to inspect or manipulate its styles.
```elixir
# Using theme name in formatter options
iex> Autumn.highlight!("setTimeout(fun, 5000);", language: "js", formatter: {:html_inline, theme: "github_light"})
~s|<pre class="athl" style="color: #1f2328; background-color: #ffffff;"><code class="language-javascript" translate="no" tabindex="0"><div class="line" data-line="1"><span style="color: #6639ba;">setTimeout</span><span style="color: #1f2328;">(</span><span style="color: #1f2328;">fun</span><span style="color: #1f2328;">,</span> <span style="color: #0550ae;">5000</span><span style="color: #1f2328;">)</span><span style="color: #1f2328;">;</span>
</span></code></pre>|
# Using theme struct
iex> theme = Autumn.Theme.get("github_light")
iex> Autumn.highlight!("setTimeout(fun, 5000);", language: "js", formatter: {:html_inline, theme: theme})
```
#### Bring Your Own Theme
You can also load custom themes from JSON files or strings:
```elixir
# Load from JSON file
{:ok, theme} = Autumn.Theme.from_file("/path/to/your/theme.json")
Autumn.highlight!("your code", theme: theme)
# Load from JSON string
theme_json = ~s({"name": "my_theme", "appearance": "dark", "highlights": {"comment": {"fg": "#808080"}}})
{:ok, theme} = Autumn.Theme.from_json(theme_json)
Autumn.highlight!("your code", theme: theme)
```
## Incomplete or Malformed code
It's also capable of handling incomplete or malformed code, useful for streaming like in a ChatGPT interface:
```elixir
iex> Autumn.highlight!("const header = document.getEl", language: "js")
~s|<pre class="athl" style="color: #abb2bf; background-color: #282c34;"><code class="language-javascript" translate="no" tabindex="0"><div class="line" data-line="1"><span style="color: #c678dd;">const</span> <span style="color: #abb2bf;">header</span> <span style="color: #abb2bf;">=</span> <span style="color: #e86671;">document</span><span style="color: #848b98;">.</span><span style="color: #56b6c2;">getEl</span>
</span></code></pre>|
```
## Formatters
Autumn supports four output formatters:
All HTML formatters wrap each line in a `<div class="line">` element with a `data-line` attribute containing the line number, making it easy to add line numbers or implement line-based features in your application.
See the [Livebook examples](https://github.com/leandrocp/autumn/tree/main/examples) and [t:formatter/0](https://hexdocs.pm/autumn/Autumn.html#t:formatter/0) for more.
### HTML Inline (Default)
Generates HTML with inline styles for each token:
```elixir
iex> Autumn.highlight!("Atom.to_string(:elixir)", language: "elixir", formatter: :html_inline)
# or with options
iex> Autumn.highlight!("Atom.to_string(:elixir)", language: "elixir", formatter: {:html_inline, pre_class: "my-code", italic: true, include_highlights: true})
```
Options:
- `:pre_class` - CSS class for the `<pre>` tag
- `:italic` - enable italic styles
- `:include_highlights` - include highlight scope names in `data-highlight` attributes
- `:highlight_lines` - highlight specific lines with custom styling
- `:header` - wrap the highlighted code with custom HTML elements
### HTML Linked
Generates HTML with CSS classes for styling:
```elixir
iex> Autumn.highlight!("Atom.to_string(:elixir)", language: "elixir", formatter: :html_linked)
# or with options
iex> Autumn.highlight!("Atom.to_string(:elixir)", language: "elixir", formatter: {:html_linked, pre_class: "my-code"})
```
Options:
- `:pre_class` - CSS class for the `<pre>` tag
- `:highlight_lines` - highlight specific lines with custom CSS class
- `:header` - wrap the highlighted code with custom HTML elements
To use linked styles, you need to include one of the [available CSS themes](https://github.com/leandrocp/autumn/tree/main/priv/static/css) in your app.
For Phoenix apps, add this to your `endpoint.ex`:
```elixir
plug Plug.Static,
at: "/themes",
from: {:autumn, "priv/static/css/"},
only: ["dracula.css"] # choose any theme you want
```
Then add the stylesheet to your template:
```html
<link phx-track-static rel="stylesheet" href={~p"/themes/dracula.css"} />
```
### HTML Multi-Themes
Generates HTML with CSS custom properties (variables) for multiple themes, enabling light/dark mode support. Inspired by [Shiki Dual Themes](https://shiki.style/guide/dual-themes).
```elixir
# Basic dual theme with CSS variables
iex> Autumn.highlight!("Atom.to_string(:elixir)",
language: "elixir",
formatter: {:html_multi_themes,
themes: [light: "github_light", dark: "github_dark"]
}
)
# With light-dark() function for automatic theme switching
iex> Autumn.highlight!("Atom.to_string(:elixir)",
language: "elixir",
formatter: {:html_multi_themes,
themes: [light: "github_light", dark: "github_dark"],
default_theme: "light-dark()"
}
)
```
The generated HTML includes CSS custom properties like `--athl-light`, `--athl-dark`, `--athl-{theme}-bg`, and font styling variables (`-font-style`, `-font-weight`, `-text-decoration`) that can be used with CSS media queries or JavaScript for theme switching:
```css
/* Automatic light/dark mode based on system preference */
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
.athl,
.athl span {
color: var(--athl-dark) !important;
background-color: var(--athl-dark-bg) !important;
font-style: var(--athl-dark-font-style) !important;
font-weight: var(--athl-dark-font-weight) !important;
text-decoration: var(--athl-dark-text-decoration) !important;
}
}
/* Manual control with class-based switching */
html.dark .athl,
html.dark .athl span {
color: var(--athl-dark) !important;
background-color: var(--athl-dark-bg) !important;
font-style: var(--athl-dark-font-style) !important;
font-weight: var(--athl-dark-font-weight) !important;
text-decoration: var(--athl-dark-text-decoration) !important;
}
```
Options:
- `:themes` (required) - keyword list mapping theme identifiers to theme names, e.g., `[light: "github_light", dark: "github_dark"]`
- `:default_theme` - controls inline color rendering: theme identifier for inline colors, `"light-dark()"` for CSS function, or `nil` for CSS variables only
- `:css_variable_prefix` - custom CSS variable prefix (default: `"--athl"`)
- `:pre_class` - CSS class for the `<pre>` tag
- `:italic` - enable italic styles
- `:include_highlights` - include highlight scope names in `data-highlight` attributes
- `:highlight_lines` - highlight specific lines with custom styling
- `:header` - wrap the highlighted code with custom HTML elements
### Terminal
Generates ANSI escape codes for terminal output:
```elixir
iex> Autumn.highlight!("Atom.to_string(:elixir)", language: "elixir", formatter: :terminal)
# or with options
iex> Autumn.highlight!("Atom.to_string(:elixir)", language: "elixir", formatter: {:terminal, theme: "github_light"})
```
Options:
- `:theme` - theme to apply styles
## Samples
Visit https://autumnus.dev to check out some examples.
## Acknowledgements
* [Logo](https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/fall) created by by pongsakornRed - Flaticon
* [Logo font](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Sacramento) designed by [Astigmatic](http://www.astigmatic.com)
* [Makeup](https://hex.pm/packages/makeup) for setting up the baseline and for the inspiration
* [Inkjet](https://crates.io/crates/inkjet) for the Rust implementation up to v0.2 and for the inspiration