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How to fix prettier messing up your HTML on save

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Like everyone I use Prettier to format my JS files.

I’ve had some issues with Prettier formatting my HTML like this:

The solution I found is to add this to your settings.json file to tell VS Code to use the default HTML formatter instead of Prettier:

{
  "[html]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "vscode.html-language-features"
  },
}

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