Visual Studio Time Saver – Faster HTML Coding

Quick tips to make you more efficient in Visual Studio. Today’s tip: How you can write your HTML code faster with VS Web essentials and Zen Coding

If you are a web developer than you are writing HTML.

 <div id=”content”>

<sentence>The fun thing about HTML is all the opening and closing tags</sentence>

</div>

<h1 class =”YesThoseTagsShouldbeThere”>smiley</h1>

Zen coding is a series of shortcuts that allow you to quickly write HTML code. If you install VS Web Essentials, a free plug-in for Visual Studio, you can take advantage of the Zen coding shortcuts to write your code in Visual Studio! 

table>tr>td*2 quickly becomes

 table><tr><td></td><td</td></tr></table>

div#content.headings quickly becomes

 <div id=”content” class=”headings”></div>

Check out this short video to learn more about how to use Zen coding to write your HTML code! There’s a great blog post on Zen Coding by John Papa if you want more shortcuts!

 

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