How to indent/format a selection of code in Visual Studio Code with Ctrl + Shift + F

Question

I want to indent a specific section of code in Visual Studio Code.

I read How do you format code in Visual Studio Code? that gives shortcuts to indent the whole code, but it doesn't work when selecting a specific section of code.

I tried Ctrl + Shift + F after selecting some line in my code, but the whole file is indented. I'm on Windows with Visual Studio Code Insider 1.8.0. How can I do it?

Answer 1

I want to indent a specific section of code in Visual Studio Code:

• Select the lines you want to indent, and
• use Ctrl + ] to indent them.

If you want to format a section (instead of indent it):

• Select the lines you want to format,
• use Ctrl + K, Ctrl + F to format them.