Problem with Code Formatting [duplicate]

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Manually specify language for syntax highlighting

For some reason when I edit this question, and I select the relevant code portions, and hit the code formatting button, my code becomes formatted and colored. When I save my edits, however, the coloring goes away.

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT

Thanks to Chris, it seems as though it's not working since my question doesn't have any language tags; it's not supposed to. Is there a way to manually tell the code formatter which language to use?

• ChrisF: You don't have any language tags on the post. You can tell it what to use, but I can't remember the syntax.
• ChrisF: See - meta.stackexchange.com/questions/79785/…

Answer 1

yes there is other way to tell the code formatter which language to use, but the help should be updated