Find closing HTML tag in Sublime Text
HtmlSublimetextHtml Problem Overview
I have a very long and very nested HTML document, where I need to quickly find the closing tag. How can I do this?
Html Solutions
Solution 1 - Html
Try Emmet plug-in command Go To Matching Pair:
http://docs.emmet.io/actions/go-to-pair/
Shortcut (Mac): Shift + Control + T
Shortcut (PC): Control + Alt + J
Solution 2 - Html
There is a shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+A for Windows and Linux users, Command+Shift+A for Mac users) to select the whole block within the currently selected tag.
For example, if you pressed this while your text cursor was within the outer div
tag in the code below, all the div
s with class selected
would be selected.
<div class='current_tag_block'>
<div class='selected'></div>
<div class='selected'></div>
<div class='selected'></div>
<div class='selected'></div>
</div>
As @frazer-kirkman mentioned in a comments you can also move your cursor to the start or to the end of the selected block by pressing either Left or Right button on a keyboard depending on your cursor's position
Solution 3 - Html
It's built in from Sublime Editor 2 at least. Just press the following and it balances the HTML-tag
Shortcut (Mac): Shift + Command + A
Shortcut (Windows): Control + Alt + A
Solution 4 - Html
Under the "Goto" menu, Control + M is Jump to Matching Bracket. Works for parentheses as well.
Solution 5 - Html
None of the above worked on Sublime Text 3 on Windows 10, Ctrl + Shift + ' with the Emmet Sublime Text 3 plugin works great and was the only working solution for me. Ctrl + Shift + T re-opens the last closed item and to my knowledge of Sublime, has done so since early builds of ST3 or late builds of ST2.
Solution 6 - Html
As said before, Control
/Command
+ Shift
+ A
gives you basic support for tag matching. Press it again to extend the match to the parent element. Press arrow left/right to jump to the start/end tag.
Anyway, there is no built-in highlighting of matching tags. Emmet is a popular plugin but it's overkill for this purpose and can get in the way if you don't want Emmet-like editing. Bracket Highlighter seems to be a better choice for this use case.
Solution 7 - Html
I think, you may want to try another approach with folding enabled.
In both ST2 and ST3, if you enable folding in User settings:
{
...(previous item)
"fold_buttons": true,
...(next item, thus the comma)
}
You can see the triangle folding button at the left side of the line where the start tag is. Click it to expand/fold. If you want to copy, fold and copy, you get all block.