how can I find the close html tag quickly in vim?

Question

Just like editing C source file, I can press % to get the closing } for the current cursor\'s {. How can I do this when editing html files? Is there any shortcuts? To be cle

Answer 1

You can jump between tags using visual operators, in example:

1. Place the cursor on the tag.
2. Enter visual mode by pressing v.
3. Select the outer tag block by pressing a+t or i+t for inner tag block.

Your cursor should jump forward to the matching closing html/xml tag. To jump backwards from closing tag, press o or O to jump to opposite tag.

Now you can either exit visual by pressing Esc, change it by c or copy by y.

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To record that action into register, press qq to start recording, perform tag jump as above (including Esc), press q to finish. Then to invoke jump, press @q.

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See more help at :help visual-operators or :help v_it:

at a <tag> </tag> block (with tags)

it inner <tag> </tag> block

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Alternatively use plugin such as matchit.vim (See: Using % in languages without curly braces).

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See also:

• How to jump between matching HTML/XML tags? at Vim SE
• Jump to matching XML tags in Vim at stackoverflow SE
• Navigating HTML tags in Vim at stackoverflow SE
• How to navigate between begin and end html tag? at superuser SE
• VIM jump from one xml tag to the closing one at Unix SE
• How can I select an html tag's content in Vim? at superuser SE

Answer 2

MatchTagAlways is a plugin that always highlights the XML/HTML tags that enclose your cursor location.

https://github.com/Valloric/MatchTagAlways

Answer 3

I have had problems with this is the past, even with the matchit plugin. The way I solved it was to modify b:match_words on xml-type files. Here is the relevant section from my .vimrc:

  autocmd FileType html let b:match_words = '<\(\w\w*\):</\1,{:}'
  autocmd FileType xhtml let b:match_words = '<\(\w\w*\):</\1,{:}'
  autocmd FileType xml let b:match_words = '<\(\w\w*\):</\1,{:}'

Try it out, see if it helps any.

Answer 4

You should be able to do this with the matchit plugin by typing % when your mouse is on the opening tag.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=39