Navigating HTML tags in Vim

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.


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 (to repeat, hit @@).


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

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

it inner <tag> </tag> block


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


See also:

  • How to jump between matching HTML/XML tags? at Vim SE
  • Jump to matching XML tags in Vim at stackoverflow SE
  • How can I find the close html tag quickly 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

The matchit.vim macro gets you most of the way there, allowing you to move to a closing tag with % as you would matching parens or braces. It's included in many Vim distributions including the standard download, but often not enabled by default.

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

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