diff --git a/extensions/typescript/src/typescriptMain.ts b/extensions/typescript/src/typescriptMain.ts
index 66de29890ac..d86e0dd30a3 100644
--- a/extensions/typescript/src/typescriptMain.ts
+++ b/extensions/typescript/src/typescriptMain.ts
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ export function activate(context: ExtensionContext): void {
 
 	context.subscriptions.push(new TypeScriptTaskProviderManager(() => lazyClientHost().serviceClient));
 
-	context.subscriptions.push(languages.setLanguageConfiguration('jsx-tags', languageConfigurations.jsxTags));
+	context.subscriptions.push(languages.setLanguageConfiguration(languageModeIds.jsxTags, languageConfigurations.jsxTags));
 
 	const supportedLanguage = [].concat.apply([], standardLanguageDescriptions.map(x => x.modeIds).concat(plugins.map(x => x.languages)));
 	function didOpenTextDocument(textDocument: TextDocument): boolean {
diff --git a/extensions/typescript/src/utils/languageConfigurations.ts b/extensions/typescript/src/utils/languageConfigurations.ts
index abced4189b8..ed002e9d1a8 100644
--- a/extensions/typescript/src/utils/languageConfigurations.ts
+++ b/extensions/typescript/src/utils/languageConfigurations.ts
@@ -60,4 +60,4 @@ export const jsxTags = {
 			action: { indentAction: IndentAction.Indent }
 		}
 	],
-}
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+};
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diff --git a/extensions/typescript/src/utils/languageModeIds.ts b/extensions/typescript/src/utils/languageModeIds.ts
index f69fd1295df..65f8cb0e9ff 100644
--- a/extensions/typescript/src/utils/languageModeIds.ts
+++ b/extensions/typescript/src/utils/languageModeIds.ts
@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@
 export const typescript = 'typescript';
 export const typescriptreact = 'typescriptreact';
 export const javascript = 'javascript';
-export const javascriptreact = 'javascriptreact';
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+export const javascriptreact = 'javascriptreact';
+export const jsxTags = 'jsx-tags';
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