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Pug specific options

These additional options are specific to pug templates and can be configured in your global .prettierrc file:


Attribute Separator

pugAttributeSeparator

Description

Choose when to use commas to separate attributes in tags.

Options

Type: choice
Default: 'always'

'always'

Always separate attributes with commas.

pug
button(type="submit", (click)="play()", disabled)

'as-needed'

Only add commas between attributes where required.

pug
button(type="submit", (click)="play()" disabled)

'none'

Never add commas between attributes.

pug
button(type="submit" @click="play()" :style="style" disabled)

WARNING

Please note that while this option will process Angular syntax (e.g. (click)="play()"), the resulting pug file will throw a syntax error when parsed: Syntax Error: Assigning to rvalue


Comment Preserve Spaces

pugCommentPreserveSpaces

Description

Change behavior of spaces within comments.

Options

Type: choice
Default: 'keep-all'

'keep-all'

Keep all spaces within comments.

pug
// ___this _is __a __comment_

'keep-leading'

Keep leading spaces within comments.

pug
// ___this is a comment

'trim-all'

Trim all spaces within comments.

pug
// this is a comment

Sort Attributes

pugSortAttributes

Description

Sort attributes that are not on beginning and end patterns.

Options

Type: choice
Default: 'as-is'

'as-is'

Keep the attributes untouched.

pug
Foo(a c d b)

'asc'

Sort attributes ascending.

pug
Foo(a b c d)

'desc'

Sort attributes descending.

pug
Foo(d c b a)

pugSortAttributesBeginning

Description

Sort attributes by regex patterns to the beginning.

Options

Type: array
Default: []


pugSortAttributesEnd

Description

Sort attributes by regex patterns to the end.

Options

Type: array
Default: []


Example


Wrap Attributes

pugWrapAttributesPattern

Description

Define a regex pattern to match attributes against that should always trigger wrapping.

Options

Type: string
Default: ''


pugWrapAttributesThreshold

Description

Define the maximum amount of attributes that an element can appear with on one line before it gets wrapped.

Options

Type: choice
Default: -1

-1

Only wrap attributes as needed.

pug
input(type="text")
input(type="text", value="my_value")
input(type="text", value="my_value", name="my_name")

0

Always wrap attributes.

pug
input(
  type="text"
)
input(
  type="text",
  value="my_value"
)
input(
  type="text",
  value="my_value",
  name="my_name"
)

1

Allow up to one attribute to remain in the same line. Wrap all attributes, if there are two or more attributes.

pug
input(type="text")
input(
  type="text",
  value="my_value"
)
input(
  type="text",
  value="my_value",
  name="my_name"
)

2 .. Infinity

Same as above, just with different thresholds.

pug
input(type="text")
input(type="text", value="my_value")
input(
  type="text",
  value="my_value",
  name="my_name"
)

Framework specific

pugFramework

Description

Specify the used framework within the project.
If not set, or set to 'auto', the plugin tries to find the correct framework by reading process.env.npm_package_*.

Options

Type: choice
Default: 'auto'

'auto'

Try to detect a framework by checking process.env.npm_package_*.
If no framework could be detected, the default strategy will be used.

'vue'

Set used framework to Vue.
This may hide some unrelated warnings that only apply to Angular.

'svelte'

Set used framework to Svelte.
Currently behaves the same as Vue.
If you found an issue with that, please open an issue.

'angular'

Set used framework to Angular.
This uses a specific parser for text interpolation.


pugSingleFileComponentIndentation

Description

Indent pug in template tags in single file components such as from vue or svelte.

Options

Type: boolean
Default: false


Empty Attributes

pugEmptyAttributes

Description

Change behavior of boolean attributes.

Options

Type: choice
Default: 'as-is'

'as-is'

Nothing is changed.

pug
foo(a, b="", c)

'none'

Every attribute with empty quotes will have them removed.

pug
foo(a, b, c)

'all'

Every boolean attribute will be expressed with empty quotes.

pug
foo(a="", b="", c="")

pugEmptyAttributesForceQuotes

Description

Define a list of patterns for attributes that will be forced to have empty quotes even with pugEmptyAttributes set to 'none'.

Options

Type: array
Default: []


Notation

pugClassNotation

Description

Define how classes should be formatted.

Options

Type: choice
Default: 'literal'

'literal'

Forces all valid classes to be printed as literals.

pug
foo.bar.baz

'attribute'

Forces all classes to be printed as attributes.

pug
foo(class="bar baz")

'as-is'

Disables class formatting.

pug
foo.bar(class="baz")

pugIdNotation

Description

Define how ids should be formatted.

Options

Type: choice
Default: 'literal'

'literal'

Forces all valid ids to be printed as literals.

pug
foo#bar

'attribute'

Forces all ids to be printed as attributes.

pug
foo(id="bar")

WARNING

This option is not yet available.
If you would like to offer this option, please let us know here #167

'as-is'

Disables id formatting.

pug
foo(id="bar")

Class Location

pugClassLocation

Description

Define where classes will be placed.

Options

Type: choiceDefault: 'before-attributes'

'before-attributes'

Forces all valid class literals to be placed before attributes.

pug
foo.bar.baz(attr='this-attr')

'after-attributes'

Forces all valid class literals to be placed after attributes.

pug
foo(attr='this-attr').bar.baz

Explicit div

pugExplicitDiv

Description

Define if a div tag should always be printed with literal class and id formatting.

Options

Type: boolean
Default: false

false

Input:

pug
div.foo.bar

Output:

pug
.foo.bar

true

Input:

pug
.foo.bar

Output:

pug
div.foo.bar

Preserve attribute brackets

pugPreserveAttributeBrackets

Description

Define if brackets should be preserved while formatting attributes, even if empty.

Options

Type: boolean
Default: false

false

Input:

pug
.text-red-400()&attributes(attributes)

Output:

pug
.text-red-400&attributes(attributes)

true

Input:

pug
.text-red-400()&attributes(attributes)

Output:

pug
.text-red-400()&attributes(attributes)

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