Some expansions contain insertion points, which are locations where additional text can be entered. The expansion for the highlighted Emmet suggestion is displayed in a 'documentation fly-out' to the right of the suggestion, so you know what will be inserted before you select it. To use a different suggestion, use to the up and down arrows keys to navigate to it and press enter or tab. To use the top suggestion before the snippet is fully entered, press enter or tab. Suggestions are displayed as snippets as typed, along with non-Emmet suggestions. js files, change the 'emmet.includeLanguages' object to include javascript: 'javascriptreact'.

Change settings in 'USER SETTINGS' on the right.

Note the available settings and their defaults on the left.

Enter 'Emmet' in the 'Search Settings' input at the top.

Settings from the 'File' menu in Windows and Linux, or the 'Code' menu in macOS. VS Code includes Emmet by default, enabled for these file types: css, haml, html, jade, jsx, less, sass, scss, slim, stylus, xml, and xsl.

Instructions for other popular editors can be found at the following sites:ĭetails on configuring Emmet for VS Code can be found at. Currently VS Code seems to be the most popular editor, so that is covered. Rather than walk through the steps for every editor, this article covers just two. Click the box for your editor to see the details. Instructions for specific ones can be found at.

You will need to configure Emmet within your editor/IDE of choice. The main web site for Emmet is, and you'll find a handy cheat sheet at. For example, the CSS snippet mb10 expands to margin-bottom: 10px. The snippet div#2 expands to some content.

We will see many examples later, but here's one. These kinds of snippets are referred to as 'dynamic snippets.' It parses entered text to extract meaning. However, some implementations do not support all the defined snippets and actions.Įmmet is not just a simple snippet manager. The original name was 'Zen Coding.'Įmmet is available for many editors including Atom, Eclipse, Emacs, Notepad++, Sublime, Vim, Visual Studio (VS) Code, and WebStorm. The most commonly used action is to expand an abbreviation or snippet.Įmmet was created by Sergey Chikuyonok. It also supports many 'actions' that operate on HTML and XML elements. Emmet is an editor plugin for quickly entering HTML, XML, and CSS.

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