General purpose

keyword

keyword in a regular Algol-style language

built_in

built-in or library object (constant, class,function)

type

data type (in a language with syntacticallysignificant types) (string,int,array, etc.)

literal

special identifier for a built-in value(true,false,null, etc.)

number

number, including units and modifiers, if any.

operator

operators:+,-,>>,|,==

punctuation

aux. punctuation that should be subtly highlighted(parentheses, brackets, etc.)

property

object propertyobj.prop1.prop2.value

regexp

literal regular expression

string

literal string, character

char.escape

an escape character such as\n

subst

parsed section inside a literal string

symbol

symbolic constant, interned string, goto label

class

deprecated You probably wanttitle.class

function

deprecated You probably wanttitle.function

variable

variables

variable.language

variable with special meaning in a language, e.g.:this,window,super,self, etc.

variable.constant

variable that is a constant value, ieMAX_FILES

title

name of a class or a function

title.class

name of a class (interface, trait, module, etc)

title.class.inherited

name of class being inherited from, extended, etc.

title.function

name of a function

title.function.invoke

name of a function (when being invoked)

params

block of function arguments (parameters) at theplace of declaration

comment

comments

doctag

documentation markup within comments, e.g.@params

Meta

meta

flags, modifiers, annotations, processinginstructions, preprocessor directives, etc

meta.prompt

REPL or shell prompts or similar

meta keyword

a keyword inside a meta block(note this is nested, not subscoped)

meta string

a string inside a meta block(note this is nested, not subscoped)

Tags, attributes, configs

section

heading of a section in a config file, heading intext markup

tag

XML/HTML tag

name

name of an XML tag, the first word in ans-expression

attr

name of an attribute with no language definedsemantics (keys in JSON, setting names in .ini),also sub-attribute within another highlightedobject, like XML tag

attribute

name of an attribute followed by a structuredvalue part, like CSS properties

Text Markup

bullet

list item bullet

code

code block

emphasis

emphasis

strong

strong emphasis

formula

mathematical formula

link

hyperlink

quote

quotation or blockquote

CSS

selector-tag

tag selector

selector-id

#id selector

selector-class

.class selector

selector-attr

[attr] selector

selector-pseudo

:pseudo selector

Templates

template-tag

tag of a template language

template-variable

variable in a template language

diff

addition

added or changed line

deletion

deleted line