In Sublime Text 3, how do you enable Emmet for JSX files?

In 2021 it's not necessary to configure anything as Emmet has support for JSX files by default.

Obviously you need to install the JSX language definition from package control after installing Emmet.

Now TAB will work but only when the HTML tag is prefixed with a <. For example <div. To change this behavior open the Emmet settings and change this setting to false:

"jsx_prefix": false

To open the Emmet settings either use the File menu as show in the image below, or open the command palette (CMD+Shift+P on macOS) and write "Emmet settings".

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From the JSX-SublimeText Package readme:

Emmet's default is to not support JS files. So you will need to add a keyboard shortcut to tab complete in JSX files.

open up Preferences > Key Bindings - user and add this entry:

{
    "keys": ["tab"],
    "command": "expand_abbreviation_by_tab", 
    "context": [
        {
            "operand": "source.js.jsx", 
            "operator": "equal", 
            "match_all": true, 
            "key": "selector"
        },
        {   
            "key": "selection_empty", 
            "operator": "equal", 
            "operand": true,
            "match_all": true 
        }
    ]
}

In April 2015 Emmet added support for jsx, but it doesn't work by default. Well, for my surprise it was actually working with the control + E shortcut, but I wanted to use the TAB key to expand. Following the official instructions did the trick for me.

Basically, I had to paste the following inside my user key bindings file ( Preferences > Key Bindings — User ):

{ "keys": ["tab"], "command": "expand_abbreviation_by_tab", "context":
    [
        { "operand": "source.js", "operator": "equal", "match_all": true, "key": "selector" },
        { "match_all": true, "key": "selection_empty" },
        { "operator": "equal", "operand": false, "match_all": true, "key": "has_next_field" },
        { "operand": false, "operator": "equal", "match_all": true, "key": "auto_complete_visible" },
        { "match_all": true, "key": "is_abbreviation" }
    ]
}

This is the code without all the comments, and with the right SCOPE_SELECTOR in place.


If you type shift+super+p in a file it will let you see the current selection's context in the bottom left.

The first word is always the base file type. (source.js, text.html) In the case of the JSX I chose to change this to source.js.jsx. This is because before it is compiled JSX really isn't javascript, though it does look rather similar. There are plenty of completions and sublime sugar that you'd like to have happen in JSX but not JS. sublime-react on the other hand uses plain old source.js.

So this snippet you have is right you just need to replace source.js.jsx with source.js