Prettier formatting not working in Cursor

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Recently, Prettier stopped working in my Cursor editor for JSX, TS/TSX, JS, HTML, CSS, SCSS.
Format on save and manual format both don’t trigger anymore.

I’ve shared:

  • Prettier installation screenshots

  • My settings.json

If anyone has faced this issue or knows how to fix it, please help.
Thanks!

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{
  "prettier.printWidth": 140,
  "prettier.enable": true,
  "prettier.requireConfig": false,
  "editor.formatOnSave": true,
  "editor.codeActionsOnSave": {
    "source.fixAll.eslint": "explicit"
  },
  "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
  "eslint.format.enable": false,
  "[typescript]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "vscode.typescript-language-features",
    "editor.formatOnSave": true
  },
  "[typescriptreact]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
    "editor.formatOnSave": true
  },
  "[javascript]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
    "editor.formatOnSave": true
  },
  "[javascriptreact]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
    "editor.formatOnSave": true
  },
  "[json]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
    "editor.formatOnSave": true
  },
  "[jsonc]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
    "editor.formatOnSave": true
  },
  "[html]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
    "editor.formatOnSave": true
  },
  "[css]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
    "editor.formatOnSave": true
  },
  "[scss]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
    "editor.formatOnSave": true
  }
}
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Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known issue with Prettier v12+. Cursor didn’t support ESM extensions until recently.

The fix is already included in version 2.4:

  • Update Cursor to 2.4+ (Cursor Settings > Beta > Early Access)
  • After updating, reload the window: Ctrl + Shift + P > Developer: Reload Window

If you don’t want to wait for the update, here’s a temporary workaround: After last update PRETTIER stopped working - #19 by deanrie

Also, I noticed your TypeScript settings use vscode.typescript-language-features as the default formatter instead of Prettier. That might also affect this. After updating, double-check that setting if the issue still happens.

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4

hello, I still can’t use prettier v12+ in cursor. The version of cursor is 2.4.18

5

Me too, version 2.3 doesn’t work, neither does version 2.2.44 that I re-downloaded.

6

Formatting suddenly stopped working (all file types)

I’m experiencing an issue where code formatting has completely stopped working across all file types — HTML, JSON, TypeScript, SCSS, and CSS.

There were no configuration changes on my side. While developing, formatting suddenly stopped working altogether. I’ve tried all recommended troubleshooting steps, but none resolved the issue.

Environment

  • Cursor version: 2.4.20 (User Setup)

  • VS Code version: 1.105.1

  • Commit: 20b56586b0785b8843487045393c57c6d89b7100

  • Date: 2026-01-22T07:38:04.757Z

  • Build type: Stable

  • Release track: Early Access

Runtime

  • Electron: 39.2.7

  • Chromium: 142.0.7444.235

  • Node.js: 22.21.1

  • V8: 14.2.231.21-electron.0

OS

  • Windows: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

Formatting does not work via:

  • Format on save

  • Format document

  • Any supported language formatter

Any advice or insight would be appreciated.

7

You can downgrade your prettier ext version to 11.x

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8

Yep, only this helped (version 11.x). Thanks!

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9

It helps, thanks!

10

thank you for the report. we found the bug affecting Prettier users on Windows and are rolling the fix out.

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