Emmet cheat sheet provides quick reference for abbreviations, actions, and customization to enhance coding efficiency in html and css. 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. 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
div+div>p>span+em^bq <div></div> <div> <p><span></span><em></em></p> <blockquote></blockquote> </div> 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 Should element contain closing tag. Wrap with abbreviation a very powerful tool of the emmet toolkit It takes an abbreviation, expands it and places currently selected content in the last element of generated snippet
Css abbreviations while emmet abbreviations are good for generating html, xml or any other structured markup, it may look useless for css You don’t want to write css selectors and transform them to css selectors, right? Just expand lorem or lipsum abbreviations to get the following snippet Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing. Occasionally you have to edit your html and css code to fix bugs and add new features Emmet offers very unique tools that can greatly improve your editing experience
Expand abbreviation yep, this is the action that expands.
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