Just use the "htmlm4.vim" syntax script. (I got this from VimTip1041, but it was non-obvious to somebody looking for a quick answer.)
Put simply, while in normal mode, type the following:
:set filetype=htmlm4
You can automatically load this syntax for all html files by adding the following line to your vimrc:
au BufRead *.html set filetype=htmlm4
Comments[]
This tip is FALSE. htmlm4 is a filetype for documents which contain both HTML and M4 parts and syntax/htmlm4.vim just combine syntax/html.vim and syntax/m4.vim, so that there is no special treatment on embedded CSS/javascript in syntax/htmlm4.vim. Such treatment is a part of syntax/html.vim. So that this tip is false. You don't have to do the above configuration.
- Thanks, but please spell out what you think we on the wiki should do (assuming I don't want to take the time to figure it all out). Are you saying:
- The title of the tip is "Syntax highlighting for HTML with embedded Javascript".
- You automatically get that functionality (assuming say Vim 7) if filetype is html.
- So there is nothing in this tip that is worth keeping.
- We should delete this tip.
- JohnBeckett 10:10, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
Try it for your self, at least in my w3 compliant html file with embed js, syntax/html doesn't give the correct highlighting but syntax/htmlm4 does. For that reason alone I think this page should stay. A counter intuative and suprising work around, but if it works, it works.
- After setting filetype=html4 on my file with a bunch of HTML and a bunch of Javascript that was getting highlighted poorly, I tried 'set filetype=html' which worked well. I don't really know the details on what happened, but its worth a try. YMMV.
- Dschnau10 November 1 2012