markdown not using emmet

Question

I have included the following in my vs-code user settings:

"emmet.includeLanguages": {
  "vue-html": "html",
  "markdown": "html"
},
"emmet.triggerExpansionOnTab": true,

And would have expected to see emmet working for markdown files as an outcome but I get no suggestions and even if I explicitly press ⌃Space it just comes up with "No Suggestions".

What else is needed to get emmet in Markdown files?

+1 for this, I could have sworn it was working previously and I'm not sure why just yet. Was hoping others with this issue had solved it. — DerekR, May 29 '18 at 14:17

score 41 · Answer 1 · edited May 02 '19 at 18:36

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Okay, I got it working again. It looks like this is the default now in your user settings.

"emmet.excludeLanguages": [
    "markdown"
]

So it will trump the includeLanguages you've defined. Adding the following to my settings caused it to start working again.

"emmet.excludeLanguages": [],
"emmet.includeLanguages": {"markdown": "html"},

edited May 02 '19 at 18:36

equiman

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answered May 29 '18 at 14:23

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This is not working for me in VS Code 1.39.2. Has anything changed in the meantime? – Janosh Oct 23 '19 at 19:11
Super thanks, this configuration works like a charm on vsCode v1.44.2 on linux – avimehenwal Apr 28 '20 at 07:05

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 30 '20 at 09:59

Go to your user settings (Ctrl+Shift+P and enter "user settings"). Enter "emmet" there and click on "edit settings.json". Modify / add those lines:

"emmet.excludeLanguages": [],
"emmet.includeLanguages": {"markdown": "html"},
"emmet.triggerExpansionOnTab": true,

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 18 '20 at 04:10

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Adding these in user settings to show suggestions for the new version (1.43.0) of VSCode

"[markdown]": {
    "editor.quickSuggestions": true
}

answered Mar 18 '20 at 04:10

SanZhun

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 07 '19 at 14:36

DerekR's answer is correct, but apparently there is a little more needed to get this working. Add these two lines to settings.json, per this CSS Tricks article:

"emmet.triggerExpansionOnTab": true

"emmet.showExpandedAbbreviation": "never"

That got emmet working great in my Markdown files. Of course, there is the caveat of never showing an expanded abbreviation.

markdown not using emmet

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