Emmet is a powerful toolkit for web developers, offering tools and shortcuts to improve coding efficiency and productivity.
Emmet Cheat Sheet provides quick reference for abbreviations, actions, and customization to enhance coding efficiency in HTML and CSS.
Emmet takes the snippets idea to a whole new level: you can type CSS-like expressions that can be dynamically parsed, and produce output depending on what you type in the abbreviation. Emmet is developed and optimised for web-developers whose workflow depends on HTML/XML and CSS, but can be used with programming languages too.
Abbreviations Abbreviations are the heart of the Emmet toolkit: these special expressions are parsed in runtime and transformed into structured code block, HTML for example. The abbreviation’s syntax looks like CSS selectors with a few extensions specific to code generation. So every web-developer already knows how to use it.
Abbreviations Syntax Emmet uses syntax similar to CSS selectors for describing elements’ positions inside generated tree and elements’ attributes. Elements You can use elements’ names like div or p to generate HTML tags.
Emmet offers very unique tools that can greatly improve your editing experience: Expand Abbreviation Yep, this is the action that expands CSS-like abbreviations into HTML code. Match Tag Pair Selects content, and/or opening and closing HTML tag name from current caret position (a.k.a “balancing”).
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Since Emmet is mostly used for writing HTML/XML tags, abbreviation definition uses XML format to describe element. Emmet parses abbreviation definition and retrieves the following data: element name; default attributes; attributes’ order; attributes’ default values; should element contain closing tag.