From the course: Emmet: Fast and Efficient Web Coding

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Filters

- As you can see, Emmet has some great time-saving features. In addition to the actions we have looked at already, I just want to share a few more little Emmet gems with you. Filters. We actually used a filter in the previous lesson. But I wanted to talk about them a little more, and share some helpful techniques with you. Filters or special post processors that modify expanded abbreviations, before they are output in the editor. Let me show you how they work. One of the things that I like to use filters for, is this little commenting goodie. I often create involved webpages that may have a series of nested tags. Now, Emmet does indent the tags, which is visually helpful. But if we have something like this, where we have a number of nested Divs, think Bootstrap. You may end up with a lot of closing Div tags, and it's not always apparent as to which tag they're actually closing. This often happens to me when…

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