Emmet

Emmet is a web-developer’s toolkit for boosting HTML & CSS code writing, which allows you to write large HTML code blocks at speed of light using well-known CSS selectors.

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#Emmet Syntax

#Getting started

Let us start to improve your development to the speed of light.

#Multiplication: *

ul>li*5

<ul>
  <li></li>
  <li></li>
  <li></li>
  <li></li>
  <li></li>
</ul>

#Child: >

nav>ul>li

<nav>
  <ul>
    <li></li>
  </ul>
</nav>

#Custom attributes

p[title="Hello world"]

<p title="Hello world"></p>

td[rowspan=2 colspan=3 title]

<td rowspan="2" colspan="3" title=""></td>

[a='value1' b="value2"]

<div a="value1" b="value2"></div>

#Text: {}

a{Click me}

<a href="">Click me</a>

p>{Click }+a{here}+{ to continue}

<p>Click <a href="">here</a> to continue</p>

#ID and CLASS attributes

#header

<div id="header"></div>

.title

<div class="title"></div>

form#search.wide

<form id="search" class="wide"></form>

p.class1.class2.class3

<p class="class1 class2 class3"></p>

#Implicit tag names

.class

<div class="class"></div>

em>.class

<em><span class="class"></span></em>

ul>.class

<ul>
  <li class="class"></li>
</ul>

table>.row>.col

<table>
  <tr class="row">
    <td class="col"></td>
  </tr>
</table>

#Sibling: +

div+p+bq

<div></div>
<p></p>
<blockquote></blockquote>

#Climb-up: ^

div+div>p>span+em^bq

<div></div>
<div>
  <p><span></span><em></em></p>
  <blockquote></blockquote>
</div>

div+div>p>span+em^^bq

<div></div>
<div>
  <p><span></span><em></em></p>
</div>
<blockquote></blockquote>

#Grouping: ()

div>(header>ul>li*2>a)+footer>p

<div>
  <header>
    <ul>
      <li><a href=""></a></li>
      <li><a href=""></a></li>
    </ul>
  </header>
  <footer>
    <p></p>
  </footer>
</div>

(div>dl>(dt+dd)*4)+footer>p

<div>
  <dl>
    <dt></dt>
    <dd></dd>
    <dt></dt>
    <dd></dd>
    <dt></dt>
    <dd></dd>
    <dt></dt>
    <dd></dd>
  </dl>
</div>
<footer>
  <p></p>
</footer>

#Indexing: $

ul>li.item$*3

<ul>
  <li class="item1"></li>
  <li class="item2"></li>
  <li class="item3"></li>
</ul>

h$[title=item$]{Header $}*3

<h1 title="item1">Header 1</h1>
<h2 title="item2">Header 2</h2>
<h3 title="item3">Header 3</h3>

ul>li.item$$$*3

<ul>
  <li class="item001"></li>
  <li class="item002"></li>
  <li class="item003"></li>
</ul>

ul>li.item$@-*3

<ul>
  <li class="item3"></li>
  <li class="item2"></li>
  <li class="item1"></li>
</ul>

ul>li.item$@2*3

<ul>
  <li class="item2"></li>
  <li class="item3"></li>
  <li class="item4"></li>
</ul>

#Also see