I'm working with ejs files, but in order to reuse some code, I'm using the includes feature. Given that some opening/closing html tags are placed in other files, after I save my changes, something (I don't know if prettier extension or VS code editor) is including the closing tags into my code, causing several problems when I running it.
An other solution is to use a .prettierignore file and put in :
*.ejs
in your settings.json you should add these settings.
just instead of "[css]" type what you want. (the format of the file)
and just please ignore line 2 :) that's not related to this answer.
Edit
as #aegatlin said use this: "[html]".(if "[ejs]" didn't work for you)
I don't use EJS myself, but after playing around with it in VSCode, I noticed that my .ejs files were being treated as HTML files. You can see how your VSCode is interpreting the file by looking in the bottom right corner of the editor. You could search for EJS extensions as well.
You likely have the "Editor: format on save" option enabled. To disable that setting, go to Preferences, and in the search bar type "format on save". Find the setting. Uncheck the box. That should fix the problem.
If, as you mentioned, your closing HTML tags are in other files, then you have invalid HTML and the formatter (both Prettier's and the default one) will autocomplete the closing tag. (I would wager EJS also wouldn't like the lack of closing tags, but since I don't use it I'm not so sure, maybe it's fine.)
Zulhilmi Zainudin has the solution
https://medium.com/#zulhhandyplast/how-to-disable-vs-code-formatonsave-for-specific-file-extensions-c60e8f254243
In vscode setting file, associate ejs extentions files to a « language ». Then you can specify different rules for this that language :
.vscode/settings.json file content :
{
"files.associations": {
"*.ejs": "ejs" // this create the language « ejs » which refers to any .ejs file
},
"[ejs]": { // custom settings for the language « ejs »
"editor.formatOnSave": false
}
}
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Is there a way to make VS Code stop breaking HTML tags before > on a new line? As you can see on the picture the tag is breaking/wrapping on a next line just after the > . I'm Using Prettier - Code formatter.
You could try adding this line to your settings.json file
{
"html.format.wrapAttributes": "force-aligned"
}
I know this is old, but for those who have the same problem, have you checked to ensure that your document is being treated as HTML rather than something else? I've seen this happen when I format my HTML code in a Javascript document.
On the bottom-right of the VS Code window, after Tab Size, UTF-8, and CRLF (your options may be different) you should see HTML. If you see Javascript, CSS, or some other code language, you'll need to click it and change it to HTML.
On VS Code, I installed the prettier extensions, and since it doesn't support EJS, I added"prettier.disableLanguages": [ "ejs", ".ejs" ] to the setting.json file. This also shows up in the regular settings under Prettier: Disable Languages. Despite this, prettier keeps on re-formatting my EJS, which is super frustrating. How do I stop prettier from modifying a certain language besides this method?
Since Prettier knows nothing about EJS, it doesn't understand what you wrote in prettier.disableLanguages. Also VS Code considers .ejs files HTML. This not exactly accurate conclusion is passed to the Prettier extension, which in turn passes it to Prettier, so Prettier tries to format your files as pure HTML.
Try adding *.ejs to the .prettierignore file. You can read more about it here: https://prettier.io/docs/en/ignore.html
Your can add this
"[html]": { "editor.formatOnSave": false },
in your settings.json file in VSCode it will prevent auto formating html files, prettier still not have any ignore for .ejs files.
As .ejs files are still taken as html files by prettier.
For some reason, whenever I create a new file and give it a css extension, the language mode is set to plain text. That is not the usual behavior and I don't know why it is acting that way.
Does anyone know how to fix that?
Thanks.
Click to the language at the right bottom bar of VSCode
Select Configure File Association for '.css'
Find CSS and select it.
You could run into problem cannot finding CSS in the last step I mentioned above, then here might be the fix for it btw:
Press Ctrl + , to open the Settings window.
Click Open Settings (JSON)
Find a line where there is
"files.associations": {
"*.css": "Plain Text"
}
and delete it, make sure the json file still in a correct format after deleting (no missing or extra comma ,).
I'm trying to prevent auto closing tags, but the following setting doesn't seem to work:
{
"html.autoClosingTags": false,
}
What else must be done to make auto-closing tags go away?
Just in case anyone looking at this is finding that HTML tags are still being automatically closed inside JSX files. The setting you need is:
{
"javascript.autoClosingTags": false,
"typescript.autoClosingTags": false
}
Open Visual Studio Code, go to Preferences -> Settings
Under the User Settings tab, click Text Editor, and search for the setting Auto Closing Tags. Uncheck HTML: Auto Closing Tags
This search results also allow you to disable auto closing for JavaScript and TypeScript, if desired.
Based on Visual Studio Code 1.64.2 for macOS.
For me, the solution was in an extension. I had the Auto Close Tag extension installed (who knows when I though that was a good idea) that was overriding the built in autoclose. Disabling the extension fixed it.
Take a look through your enabled extensions and see if there's any that might be adding this behavior.
The following worked for me:
Go to File > Preference > Setting (Ctrl + ,)
Extension > HTML
And remove tick from the "Auto Closing Tags".
Hope this helps. Cheers :)
Disabling autoclosing for only TypeScript generics
To eliminate autoclosing on TS <generic> tags, but leave it on otherwise, install the Auto Close Tag VSCode extension and add the following lines to your JSON user settings:
{
"auto-close-tag.disableOnLanguage": [
"typescript",
"typescriptreact"
]
}
Further Reading: TypeScript Generics: Adds closing "Tag" to type specifier #17
You might need to delete the comma after "false" - Visual Studio Code doesn't seem to like commas after the last statement in preferences.
Just ran into this problem and I went to preferences -> settings -> extensions -> HTML -> disable autoclosing of HTML tags. Hope this helps!
I just looked this one up myself and noticed there was no verified answer. Those saying you have to go to the HTML portion are absolutely correct, if you don't uncheck that checkbox under HTML: Auto Closing Tags then you will keep getting the closing tags.
Is there a way in Visual Studio Code to change the default language that is used for new files?
By default if you open a new file, it's set for "Plain Text", I want this to be "HTML" instead.
I am often copy pasting HTML into VSC, editing a bit, then copying it back to a CMS I am using (the CMS editor is horrible). I don't want to save the code on my computer at all, just edit it a bit with HTML syntax highlighting, but I want that to be the default.
You can now set the default language at either the user or workspace settings level using files.defaultLanguage:
"files.defaultLanguage": "html"
This can be done as a one off by changing the language mode:
F1 to launch command palette
Type lang, enter
Type html, enter
Now you can do this change. Check out
"files.defaultLanguage" in settings.
With v1.42 you can either set
"files.defaultLanguage": "${activeEditorLanguage}"
and when you open a new untitled file with an html file as the last active file, the new file will automatically be assigned a languageMode of HTML.
Alternatively, pasting any html code into a new untitled file from a vscode editor will automatically be detected and the languageMode set to HTML. Unless you have specifically set
"files.defaultLanguage": "plaintext"
then the languageMode will not be automatically detected as of v1.43.
Also see https://stackoverflow.com/a/68596936/836330 for a preview language detection feature in vscode 1.59.
A slightly quicker way to accomplish what Daniel had answered:
Press Ctrl+K, then M
Type html, then press Enter
I had a similar issue with VS Code. I wanted to default to Python when opening new files.
Solution: Click on File > Preferences > Settings. In the search area, Type: "files.defaultLanguage". Then fill in the language of your choice.
Perhaps you could create a scratch file with the .html extension? Open that when you need to do some copy/paste editing.