Posting java code on wordpress.com. Highlight issues and lost indentation

Question

I am trying to post some java code snippets on wordpress.com using the following tags as suggested here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/

[sourcecode language="java"] ... [/sourcecode]

But all the indentation is lost and the comments doesn't get highlighted properly. The codes were copied from Eclipse.

You can see the problem here: http://lifelearner168.wordpress.com/

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try posting this code and tell me what it does:

        ​//indentation test
            //further indentation​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Answer 2

Paste it in the JavaScript text area here: http://jsfiddle.net/ to make sure the indentation is in a web compatible format and then copy it from the textarea again and paste it in the wordpress posting text area. Eclipse probably has a weird indentation method.

I looked at the source of the page and it didn't have any indentation, so it has to be something in the posting process on wordpress rather than a problem with the way it is displaying on the page when it is queried. (ignore this if it doesn't make any sense..)

Answer 3

As user1296058 mentioned, if you use [sourcecode language="javascript"] it will fix this issue.

Answer 4

Finally this worked for me :

[code language="java"]
//YOUR CODE
[/code]