Problem

Many times a good WordPress theme does not render code properly. There are problems like too big font making it harder to read the text. I use StackEdit to prepare posts and publish to my blog.

Solution

There is a way to solve this problem with custom CSS.

Description

The posting source is in Markdown. StackEdit translates MarkDown to HTML and posts to the destination. There is not much I could do with the Markdown. However, the theme on the WordPress blog allows me to set a CSS for particular content.
The code blocks are translated to pre blocks in the HTML. So adding a custom rendering for pre block should fix the problem.
I found a CSS snippet from https://wp-mix.com/css-style-pre-tags/.

pre {
	box-sizing: border-box;
	width: 100%;
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	overflow: auto;
	overflow-y: hidden;
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height: 20px;
	background: #efefef;
	border: 1px solid #777;
	background: url('lines.png') repeat 0 0;
	padding: 10px;
	color: #333;
}

Another good reference is https://perishablepress.com/perfect-pre-tags/

This made the code look much much better.

Update

• https://speckyboy.com/snippets-beautiful-syntax-highlighting/