diff --git a/src/services/outliningElementsCollector.ts b/src/services/outliningElementsCollector.ts
index 9d2c61a1a7d..5e3ab31c46a 100644
--- a/src/services/outliningElementsCollector.ts
+++ b/src/services/outliningElementsCollector.ts
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ namespace ts.OutliningElementsCollector {
             case SyntaxKind.ModuleBlock:
                 return spanForNode(n.parent);
             case SyntaxKind.ClassDeclaration:
+            case SyntaxKind.ClassExpression:
             case SyntaxKind.InterfaceDeclaration:
             case SyntaxKind.EnumDeclaration:
             case SyntaxKind.CaseBlock:
diff --git a/tests/cases/fourslash/getOutliningSpans.ts b/tests/cases/fourslash/getOutliningSpans.ts
index f4d1eb33e23..5cc8ea1012c 100644
--- a/tests/cases/fourslash/getOutliningSpans.ts
+++ b/tests/cases/fourslash/getOutliningSpans.ts
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@
 ////
 ////    }|]
 ////}|]
+////// class expressions
+//// (new class[| {
+////     bla()[| {
+////
+////     }|]
+//// }|])
 ////switch(1)[| {
 //// case 1: break;
 ////}|]