How to do tag wrapping in VS code?

hannes neukermans picture hannes neukermans · Oct 20, 2016 · Viewed 93.3k times · Source

I would like to wrap my selected html within a tag in VS code. How do I do that?

Answer

Alex picture Alex · Oct 20, 2017

Embedded Emmet could do the trick:

  1. Select text (optional)
  2. Open command palette (usually Ctrl+Shift+P)
  3. Execute Emmet: Wrap with Abbreviation
  4. Enter a tag div (or an abbreviation .wrapper>p)
  5. Hit Enter

Command can be assigned to a keybinding.

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This thing even supports passing arguments:

{
    "key": "ctrl+shift+9",
    "command": "editor.emmet.action.wrapWithAbbreviation",
    "when": "editorHasSelection",
    "args": {
        "abbreviation": "span"
    }
},

Use it like this:

  • span.myCssClass
  • span#myCssId
  • b
  • b.myCssClass