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Emmet Part 2 - Advanced

#html #webdev #beginners #tutorial

If you haven't read Emmet Part 1 - Basics, check that out first:

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Emmet Part 1 - Basics

Jesse Hall - codeSTACKr ・ May 10 '20

#webdev #tutorial #beginners #html

In this post, we cover the following topics:
📌 Boilerplates
📌 Climb Up
📌 Grouping
📌 Attributes
📌 Item Numbering
📌 Implicit Tags
📌 CSS Sneak Peek

Part 3 coming soon!

Boilerplate

You can create a basic HTML boilerplate easily! <--

  • ! 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>
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Climb Up

With Emmet we can easily traverse multiple levels. Here we can climb up a level using ^

  • div+div>p>span+em^bq 
<div></div>
<div>
    <p><span></span><em></em></p>
    <blockquote></blockquote>
</div>
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Grouping

We can achieve something similar by using grouping. To group, surround parts of the code with parenthesis.

  • div>(hdr>ul>li*2>a)+ftr>p 
<div>
    <header>
        <ul>
            <li><a href=""></a></li>
            <li><a href=""></a></li>
        </ul>
    </header>
    <footer>
        <p></p>
    </footer>
</div>
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Attributes

We can also easily add attributes to any tag using square brackets.

  • p[title="Hello World"] 
<p title="Hello World"></p>
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Item Numbering

When multiplying items, an index is tracked. We can use the index by inserting the $ sign.

  • h$[title=item$]{Header $}*3 
<h1 title="item1">Header 1</h1>
<h2 title="item2">Header 2</h1>
<h3 title="item3">Header 3</h1>
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Implicit Tags

tags do not always need to be used. In some cases they are implied. Here we create a table with a row and a column without specifying the tr or td.

  • table>.row>.col 
<table>
    <tr class="row">
        <td class="col"></td>
    </tr>
</table>
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CSS Sneak Peek

Emmet can be used for CSS too! Part 3 will be all about fast CSS workflows.

  • pos
  • pos:s
  • pos:a
  • pos:r
  • pos:f 
position:relative;
position:static;
position:absolute;
position:relative;
position:fixed;
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Part 3 coming very soon! Check out the full video on my YouTube channel.

Thanks for reading!

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