Visual Studio Code Emmet not working

Question

I am using VisualStudioCode 1.20.1 Version. Emmet is inbuilt according to VSC website.But when i am trying on VSC IDE and using anchor tag and referring to class dropdown-toggle the class is not auto suggested or recognized by vsc.

Habitation

Answer 1

In your vscode user setting, add

"emmet.includeLanguages": { "javascript": "html" }

That way you can use emmmet in your js files.

Tragacanth

Thanks, this fixed it for me. – Sakti

This [link] (code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/emmet#_emmet-configuration) shows the configuration to enable mapping between the languages supported by Emmet and language of our choice. However I was not able to get suggestions from Emmet, so I had to add a duplicate entry for 'javascript' as suggested above by @tienl to get it working. – Oloroso

4 years later, this still fixed it for me. – Ivey

6 years later, this still fixed it for me. – – Estrella

Answer 2

in vs code user setting add these

"emmet.triggerExpansionOnTab": true,
"emmet.includeLanguages": {
    "javascript": "javascriptreact",
    "vue-html": "html",
    "razor": "html",
    "plaintext": "jade"
}

Glaydsglaze

This code "emmet.triggerExpansionOnTab": true works for me. When you accidentally type something (e.g. pa instead of p for paragraph tag) and you delete the letter "a" and press tab, without this code emmet won't work. – Astylar

hey , its not working inside .html file script tag , can you help with this , with above code I'm getting emmet autosuggestions in js , vue and HTML file but not in between of strip tag <script> its not working inside this </script> – Alforja

Answer 3

This following worked for me:

1. Open Command Palette (Ctrl + Shift + P)

2. Open Settings (JSON)

3. Add to the end:

   "emmet.showSuggestionsAsSnippets": true,
   "files.associations": {
       "*html": "html", 
       "*njk": "html"
   },
   

Ppi

thanks. this has worked to add mustache templates as html – Hydropathy

Answer 4

I'd like to add to the others posting about emmet.includeLanguages, you can also add "vue": "html", so like:

"emmet.includeLanguages": { 
        "vue-html": "html",
        "vue": "html",
        "javascript": "html"
    }

Piedadpiedmont

this is what did it for me, "vue-html" on its own was not enough, added the "vue" entry as well and it worked. – Shortcake

Answer 5

Emmet does not work on js file by default. To solve that problem you have to enable emmet abbreviation in the vscode's settings. First, open settings.json from any directory:

vim ~/.config/Code/User/settings.json

To be more specific, on windows, you need to go to File > Preferences > Settings > Type in "Launch" > click on "Edit in settings.json"

Now you have to declare in settings.json that you will use emmet at js files: (Its very simple just copy and paste into code setting file the code highligted)

{
    /*here are your existing settings*/
    /*THE CODE BELOW*/
    "emmet.triggerExpansionOnTab": true,
    "emmet.includeLanguages": {
        "javascript": "javascriptreact",
        "vue-html": "html",
        "razor": "html",
        "plaintext": "jade"
    }
     /*^^^^THE CODE ABOVE^^^^*/
}

Now just save it. Not necessary restart vscode.

For more details see that post at vscode official webite.

Brimstone

Answer 6

The issue is that you need to include the language in your settings file.

With newer versions of VSCode, you can open up settings by selecting Code > Preferences > Settings and then search for "Emmet: Include Languages" and simply add your language there.

I just did this to get emmet working on my react code.

Notum

Answer 7

Check the file extension icon, does it show up as html5 or dj (which stands for django)?

If it shows as dj, then you have the Django VSCode extension. You can either:

• Remove the Django extension
• Add "django-html": "html" to emmet.includeLanguages (as per this issue), so mine now looks like this:

  "emmet.includeLanguages": {
    "vue-html": "html",
    "javascript": "javascriptreact",
    "django-html": "html",
  },

Acidimeter

Thank you! : D Added the django-html": "html, without removing the django extension or anything else and it works! Thanks! – Peculiar

Answer 8

Something I ran into that was driving me crazy trying to figure out was that the setting "emmet.showExpandedAbbreviation" will affect emmet working in your javascript files too.

To solve, remove it from your settings.json or set it to: "emmet.showExpandedAbbreviation": "always"

Fecteau

Dear God ... this was basically me too. That setting was just not in my settings.json even though it appeared to be when I was using the VSCode UI to toggle my settings. So - once I opened the settings.json I saw it was missing, added it, restarted ... and FINALLY I get emmet intellisense stuff! Thank you so much. – Niel

Answer 9

find setting.json file and add this code and save it and if you don't know how to do it then watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUuP_hriEc4`

"files.associations": {"*html":"html"}, "emmet.triggerExpansionOnTab": true

`

Flush

Answer 10

With aspnetcorerazor and razor language selection add the below code in your setting.json file:

"emmet.includeLanguages": { "aspnetcorerazor" : "html", "razor" : "html" }

Adore

Answer 11

This happened to me in HTML files because another extension (for Django, a Python web framework) was overriding .HTML file types without a way to turn it off. I removed the extension, restarted VSCode, and now it's working again.

Solarize

simply adding "django-html": "html" to the user settings in VSCode -as @Ben Butterworth suggested- worked for me – Peculiar

removing a extension is not a solution because of extensions useful in many ways. – Callboy

Answer 12

In your setting.json file add this line "emmet.triggerExpansionOnTab": true,. Then ! and tab will do the work.

Unalloyed

Answer 13

Go to VS Code settings -> Search Emmet -> In section Emmet:Include Languages, add {item, value}

{javascript :javascriptreact}

Indicia

Answer 14

Tried all above , didn't work.

Updated my VScode by reinstalling it from here and everything works like a charm now.

Twylatwyman

You may have had the same issue I did https://mcmap.net/q/346854/-visual-studio-code-emmet-not-working – Fecteau

I tried everything , including your solution as well. – Twylatwyman

Answer 15

Simply uninstall the extension related to HTML or CSS And it work for me nicely

Satterfield

what if we want to use that extension? please avoid writing a solution if it is unnecessary – Callboy

Answer 16

"editor.defaultFormatter": "VisualStudioExptTeam.vscodeintellicode"

Delmore

Answer 17

for me emmet auto-fill stopped to work on single html page ; turnout it was bcz i used "<" twice not on a tag ( like withen the text) , remove them or but \ before them or use them inside (prism cdn is recomended then) will solve the issue

Skeleton

Answer 18

I ran into this issue today and realized that the following setting wasn't checked. When I checked the box, I went back to a test HTML file and used "!" to bring up the boilerplate, and this time it worked.

"Emmet: Use inline Completions"

Date

Answer 19

Step 1: Start your VS Code. Click on the Settings or press Ctrl+, to open the VS Code Settings.

Step 2: Click on the Extensions tab on the left side of the settings. Click on HTML.

Step 3: Click on the Edit in settings:json hyperlink to edit the settings in JSON format.

Step 4: Inside the curly braces, enter the following code under the already written JSON code:

“emmet.triggerExpansionOnTab”:true,
“files.associations”: {“*html”:“html”},
“emmet.useInlineCompletions”:true

Step 5: Save the file. Now if you try to apply Emmet in your code, it will work smoothly!!

Gnarl

Answer 20

1. You have to uninstall your VS code and Node.js by going into control panel → program & features.

2. After the uninstall is copmlete, go to C:\Users\your_user_name_folder.

3. After reaching there, delete the .vscode folder.

4. Go to AppData\Roaming\Code (delete this Code folder).

5. Go to C:\Users\<your_user>\AppData\Local\Programs and delete the Microsoft VS code folder.

6. Now go to C:\Users\rajat\AppData\Local and delete the npm_cache folder.

7. Now reinstall Node.js and VSCode.

Disquisition

Answer 21

if the problem is occurring due to any Django extension then simply adding "django-html":"html" in "Emmet: Include Languages" in the settings will solve the problem.

Callboy

Answer 22

This code also worked

{
    "cmake.showOptionsMovedNotification": false,
    "emmet.preferences": {
        
        "emmet.includeLanguages": {
            "javascript": "javascriptreact",
            "typescript": "javascriptreact",
            "html": "html",
            "css": "css",
            "php": "php",
            "python": "html",
            "java": "html"
        },
        "emmet.triggerExpansionOnTab": true,
        "emmet.showSuggestionsAsSnippets": true
    },
    "emmet.syntaxProfiles": {
        "javascript": "jsx",
        "typescript": "jsx"
    },
    "prettier.disableLanguages": [
        "html"
    ],
    "html.format.enable": true,
    "editor.wordWrap": "off",
    "html.format.indentInnerHtml": true,
    "files.associations": {
        "*.html": "html",
        "*.njk": "html"
    },
    "vscode-edge-devtools.webhint": false
}

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