If you are looking for an editor that does this then check out TEXTPAD 
which has a Javascript library among others. If you are trying to colour 
what you show on the screen, then you'll either have to use the FONT tag or 
CSS.

At 20:05 07/07/02 -0400, you wrote:
>does any one here know how to do syntax coloring?
>I cant seem to find any source code
>
>thanks for help
>
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