How can I use a 'fast-writing' in WebStorm?

Question

For example, I want to create this code:

<ul id="nav">
    ....
</ul>

in other editors I can write smth like that: ul#nav Can I use smth similar to this in WebStorm?

Answer 1

Yes you can. It's called Emmet (https://emmet.io/) and WebStorm supports standard Emmet abbreviations as well as such dynamic expanding.

WebStorm help pages:

• https://www.jetbrains.com/help/webstorm/using-zen-coding-support.html
• https://www.jetbrains.com/help/webstorm/settings-emmet.html