Vim cursor position after expanding html tag

Question

I most IDEs and modern text editors (Sublime Text 3) the cursor is correctly indented after inserting a newline in between an html tag (aka \'expanding\" the tag):

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Answer 1

@RandyMorris and @romainl have posted good solutions for your exact problem.

There are some other possibilities you might be interested in if you are typing out these tags yourself: there's the ragtag.vim plugin for HTML/XML editing.

With ragtag.vim you type this to create your "before" situation (in insert mode):

div

To create your "after" situation you would instead type:

div

So if you know beforehand that you are going to "expand" the tag, typing just the element name and the combo CtrlX followed by Enter is enough.

There are also other more advanced plugins to save keystrokes when editing HTML, such as ZenCoding.vim and Sparkup.