There are a number of formats that can be passed into the paste_format attribute of an update posting to format it for display or as source code. The following options are available:

Display Formats

These formats will be parsed and displayed as formatted HTML.

• Formatted Text - text
• Formatted HTML - html
• Textile - textile
• Markdown - markdown

Code Formats

These formats will be displayed in a monospace font and syntax highlighted according to the specified language.

• Source Code (Generic) - code
• ASP - asp
• ActionScript - actionscript
• C - c
• C++ - c++
• CSS - css
• HTML - html
• HTML (Rails) - html_rails
• JSON - json
• Java - java
• Javascript - javascript
• PHP - php
• Perl - perl
• Python - python
• Ruby - ruby
• Ruby on Rails - ruby_on_rails
• SQL - sql
• XHTML 1.0 - xhtml_1.0
• XML - xml
• YAML - yaml