prettier/docs/ignore.md

---
id: ignore
title: Ignoring Code
---

Prettier offers an escape hatch to ignore a block of code from being formatted.

## JavaScript

A JavaScript comment of `// prettier-ignore` will exclude the next node in the abstract syntax tree from formatting.

For example:

```js
matrix(
  1, 0, 0,
  0, 1, 0,
  0, 0, 1
)

// prettier-ignore
matrix(
  1, 0, 0,
  0, 1, 0,
  0, 0, 1
)
```

will be transformed to:

```js
matrix(1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1);

// prettier-ignore
matrix(
  1, 0, 0,
  0, 1, 0,
  0, 0, 1
)
```

## JSX

```jsx
<div>
 {/* prettier-ignore */}
 <span     ugly  format=''   />
</div>;
```

## CSS

```css
/* prettier-ignore */
.my    ugly rule
{

}
```

## Markdown

```markdown
<!-- prettier-ignore -->
Do   not    format   this
```