syntaxProfiles.json

Output profiles are used to define how generated HTML content should look like. For example, when you expand br abbreviation, Emmet may produce one of the following tag:

• <br> — HTML notation
• <br /> — XHTML notation
• <br/> — XML notation

Emmet tries to automatically detect output profile for current document. For example, if a document contains XHTML doctype, it will use xhtml profile, html otherwise.

But sometimes you’d like to force Emmet to use another profile for specified syntax or use your own profile with specific rules.

In this case, you should create syntaxProfiles.json file in extensions folder and specify profile for a required syntax.

The content of this file is a simple key–value dictionary where the key is the syntax name as defined in snippets.json and the value is a name of predefined profile (String) or a dictionary with profile options (Object):

{
    // force XHTML profile for HTML syntax
    "html": "xhtml",

    // create our own profile for XML
    "xml": {
        "tag_case": "upper",
        "attr_quotes": "single"
    }
}

Predefined profiles

• html — default output profile.
• xhtml — the same as html, but outputs empty elements with closed slash: <br />.
• xml — default for XML and XSL syntaxes: outputs each tag on a new line with indentation, empty elements are outputted with closing slash: <br/>.
• line — used to output expanded abbreviation without any indentation and newlines. In some editors applies by default in programming languages like JavaScript or Python to produce valid strings.

Create your own profile

You can specify a dictionary with the following keys to create your own output profile:

• tag_case: case of generated tag name, string. Possible values are upper, lower and asis.
• attr_case: case of attribute names of generated tags, string. Possible values are upper, lower and asis.
• attr_quotes: quotes around attribute values, string. Possible values are single and double.
• tag_nl: output each tag on new line with indentation, boolean. Values are true (each tag on new line), false (no formatting) and 'decide' (string; only block-level elements on new lines).
• tag_nl_leaf: with tag_nl set to true, defines whether leaf block-level node (e.g. node with no children) should have formatted line breaks inside.
• indent: indent tags on new lines, boolean.
• inline_break: how many inline elements are needed to force line break, number. The default value is 3. For example, span*2 will be expanded into <span></span><span></span>, but span*3 will create three <span> elements, each on a new line. Set this option to 0 to disable line breaks for inline elements.
• self_closing_tag: should empty elements—like br or img—be outputted with closing dash, boolean. Values are true, false and 'xhtml' (string; output closing slash in XHTML style, e.g. <br />).
• filters: list of filters to be applied automatically.