Web developers lose context finding matching opening tags
When a closing tag is visible but its opening tag is off-screen, developers working in nested HTML or templates can lose their place and must navigate through the file to understand the surrounding structure. Long runs of closing tags make this especially frustrating. The requests point to a gap in the cited VS Code workflow: alternatives involve switching editors or using explicit navigation and folding commands rather than quickly seeing the matching tag.
For web developers working in nested markup. Mentioned from Jul 2018 to May 2019 on GitHub.
5 different people described this problem in 2 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 2.0/10
- Pain
- 5.6/10
- Frequency
- 6.5/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- Low
What people said
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Show Opening Tag when Closing Tag Selected intelliJ / PHP Storm / etc. have this nifty little feature. When your cursor is at the end of a tag, if the opening tag is off the screen it will show it in a little floating window.
This feature saved me a lot of time and context switching, when I was using NetBeans for coding, because if i want to refresh, where I am, or what condition it was - just set cursor near the closing bracket (yep, tooltip is shown when cursor is right before/right after/inside tag).
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