Any free option to highlight JSON in Confluence?

[Jose M_]

Is anyone aware about an easy way to highlight JSON in Confluence? And it should be for free, if possible.

[Davin Studer · Accepted solution]

You should have a syntax highlight option in the code macro for JSON.

[Jose M_]

Hi Davin and thanks for your answer.

Do you mean something as discussed here: like JSON syntax highlighting in confluence code block, specially Json Brush for SyntaxHighlighter?

[Davin Studer]

Silly me. You know what, I forgot that I did add JSON as a custom syntax highlighter. It doesn't come by default. And I actually did get the brush from the second link you provided. Once you have that you can upload it into Confluence in Confluence Admin -> Configure Code Macro.

[Jose M_]

Thanks a lot for your help, Davin. It works!

[Davin Studer]

Glad that helped.

[Denis Kuznetsov (tmp)]

May be it was in past - but now I don't see JSON in list :

[Davin Studer]

You have to add the JSON highlighter brush. it is not there by default. See the comment by @Jose M_ on Sep 19th, 2019 above and my reply below it.

[gysin]

You really have to wonder... why the hell does Jira support formatting for Erlang, Delphi and other obscure things but not plain old JSON?? What's wrong with you Jira, get your act together, it's 2021 for heavens sake...

[Richard Cross]

I also wonder why they've never supported JSON... it's been around for a decade.

[yogesh_devi]

Thanks all.  Adding the Json Brush for SyntaxHighlighter from DONOVAN BROWN tech blog did the trick for me and now the code block macro allows json syntax highlighting  . I was oblivious till day that confluence allowed adding syntax highlighting so easily provided you can get a "brush".

I have an additional question though - Where can I see notes/guidelines on creating my own "brush" for syntax highlighting or modifying an existing one - if I needed to do so ?