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Asked: 2026-05-15T04:36:21+00:00

I remember reading an article about a shorthand version, or extension, of HTML a

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I remember reading an article about a shorthand version, or extension, of HTML a few months ago. Its purpose was to make HTML code significantly more concise, by removing end tags, and it may have allowed loops of some sort as well. I want to use it now, but I can’t seem to remember what it was called.

Searching online, I found Haml, but Haml syntax doesn’t look like the example that I remember from the article. The syntax from the article made use of right angle brackets, which were a sort of replacement for indentation.

What is this language?

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  1. Editorial Team

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    Zen Coding has been renamed to Emmet and has its codebase at GitHub.

    I think you are looking for Zen Coding, which can be found at http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/.

    Zen Coding is an editor plugin for
    high-speed HTML, XML, XSL (or any
    other structured code format) coding
    and editing. The core of this plugin
    is a powerful abbreviation engine
    which allows you to expand
    expressions—similar to CSS
    selectors—into HTML code.

    Example

    div#page>div.logo+ul#navigation>li*5>a

    Expands into

    <div id="page">
  <div class="logo"></div>
  <ul id="navigation">
    <li><a href=""></a></li>
    <li><a href=""></a></li>
    <li><a href=""></a></li>
    <li><a href=""></a></li>
    <li><a href=""></a></li>
  </ul>
</div>
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