How to Select the content of the tag in vscode?

[biij5698]

How to Select the content of the tag in vscode like sublime with the key: Ctrl + Shift + A

[alefragnani]

Hi @biij5698 ,

I think it doesn't exist in the core, but maybe this extension expand-region does the trick.

Hope this helps

[dbaeumer]

@jrieken don't know what our keys are right now to expand the selection. Can you help.

[KayLeung]

@dbaeumer

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/editingevolved
"Shrink/expand selection"

It seems VSCode has this feature but doesn't work in my v1.0.0

[biij5698]

It is very regret

[jrieken]

for html there are issues, see #1808 and #4795

[Skura23]

Shift+Alt+Right will do the trick.

Place the cursor inside the bracket (not directly next to a bracket) and execute editor.action.smartSelect.grow until everything inside the bracket is selected. The default shortcut is Shift+Alt+Right.

You can shrink the selection with editor.action.smartSelect.shrink which has the default shortcut Shift+Alt+Left.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37835012/is-there-in-vscode-an-option-to-select-everything-between-matching-brackets

[suit0r]

@Skura23 thanks. that was it

[peacefulseeker]

As an alternative could use a Ctrl+D to fast select text between tags =)
Seems that Ctrl+Shift+A does not work in VSCode as in Sublime