diff --git a/extensions/html-language-features/package.json b/extensions/html-language-features/package.json
index 347af8182737c..61f2805fcf1af 100644
--- a/extensions/html-language-features/package.json
+++ b/extensions/html-language-features/package.json
@@ -165,7 +165,37 @@
           "markdownDescription": "%html.format.wrapAttributesIndentSize.desc%"
         },
         "html.format.templating": {
-          "type": "boolean",
+          "oneOf": [
+            {
+              "type": "boolean"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "array",
+              "items": {
+                "type": "string",
+                "enum": [
+                  "auto",
+                  "none",
+                  "angular",
+                  "django",
+                  "erb",
+                  "php",
+                  "smarty"
+                ],
+                "enumDescriptions": [
+                  "%html.format.templating.auto%",
+                  "%html.format.templating.none%",
+                  "%html.format.templating.angular%",
+                  "%html.format.templating.django%",
+                  "%html.format.templating.erb%",
+                  "%html.format.templating.php%",
+                  "%html.format.templating.smarty%"
+                ]
+              },
+              "minItems": 1,
+              "uniqueItems": true
+            }
+          ],
           "scope": "resource",
           "default": false,
           "description": "%html.format.templating.desc%"
diff --git a/extensions/html-language-features/package.nls.json b/extensions/html-language-features/package.nls.json
index f36ecf34f023f..e166a5293b5a1 100644
--- a/extensions/html-language-features/package.nls.json
+++ b/extensions/html-language-features/package.nls.json
@@ -19,7 +19,14 @@
 	"html.format.wrapAttributes.alignedmultiple": "Wrap when line length is exceeded, align attributes vertically.",
 	"html.format.wrapAttributes.preserve": "Preserve wrapping of attributes.",
 	"html.format.wrapAttributes.preservealigned": "Preserve wrapping of attributes but align.",
-	"html.format.templating.desc": "Honor django, erb, handlebars and php templating language tags.",
+	"html.format.templating.desc": "This setting allows you to control how templating languages are handled in HTML files. Setting it to false is equivalent to enabling the [\"none\"] option. Setting it to true is equivalent to enabling the [\"auto\"] option. For more details on the [\"auto\"] option, please refer to its description.",
+	"html.format.templating.auto": "Enable django, erb, handlebars, php and smarty templating language. (angular not enable by default)",
+	"html.format.templating.none": "Disable templating language.",
+	"html.format.templating.angular": "Enable angular templating language.",
+	"html.format.templating.django": "Enable django templating language.",
+	"html.format.templating.erb": "Enable erb templating language.",
+	"html.format.templating.php": "Enable php templating language.",
+	"html.format.templating.smarty": "Enable smarty templating language.",
 	"html.format.unformattedContentDelimiter.desc": "Keep text content together between this string.",
 	"html.format.wrapAttributesIndentSize.desc": "Indent wrapped attributes to after N characters. Use `null` to use the default indent size. Ignored if `#html.format.wrapAttributes#` is set to `aligned`.",
 	"html.suggest.html5.desc": "Controls whether the built-in HTML language support suggests HTML5 tags, properties and values.",