CSS Flexbox snippets not work

[Olga Kazmirenko]

Hi everyone!
I have notepad++ and emmet installed.
But flex boxes are not supported in emmet.
Can anyone tell me how to get CSS Flexbox snippets to work?

[Lycan Thrope]

@Olga-Kazmirenko ,
Probably because it’s not a Notepad++ plugin, and since the site that contains the reference you mention, I see no list of text editors that it applies to, so unless it has a NPP sanctioned plugin, it’s not going to work with NPP. Just because the description says:

Emmet is a plugin for many popular text editors which greatly improves HTML & CSS workflow:

But doesn’t say which editors, it has to be a highly suspect claim.

This claim:

Highly portable

Emmet is written in pure JavaScript and works across different platforms: web browser, Node.js, Microsoft WSH and Mozilla Rhino.

Also is highly suspect. Now it appears to be an open source type of application with this statement:

Platform for new tools

Dig into Emmet source code and re-use its modules to create your very own and unique actions.

It appears if you’d be so inclined, you could take it and try to develop your own plugin. :)

[PeterJones]

@Lycan-Thrope

Actually, there is an Emmet plugin for Notepad++, though the author has never decided to publish it via Plugins Admin. Or, at least, there was a few years ago. I don’t know if the plugin author has kept it compatible with modern Notepad++

Previous mentions:

• https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/17121/abbreviaiton-plugin-or-alternative-to-emmet
• https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/17366/how-to-install-emmet-plugin
• https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/17375/emmet-installation
• https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19269/emmet-con-notepad
• https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19592/adding-html-formatting-shortcuts-ctrl-b-for-bold-ctrl-i-for-em-etc
• https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19838/cant-install-zencode-plugin-in-notepad
• https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/20288/how-do-i-install-the-emmet-plugin-in-the-portable-version-of-notepad

But other than remembering that it had been mentioned before and finding those links, I don’t know much about the plugin.

@Olga-Kazmirenko ,

Those links talk about how to install it.

But for how to use it, you’d be better off at emmet.io and https://github.com/emmetio/ (specifically https://github.com/emmetio/npp for the Notepad++ Emmet Plugin) – they might be able to explain how to “get CSS Flexbox snippets to work”, as they are the Emmet experts, not us. Sorry.

[Lycan Thrope]

@PeterJones ,
Well that’s what I get for searching the Plugins admin list, instead of the forums. :(