vim html editing

When editing the contents of an HTML tag or changing the tag type in Vim, there are several useful shortcuts and techniques you can use:

1. Inside Tag Editing:

   • To edit the contents within the current HTML tag, place your cursor inside the tag and press ci> (change inside >). This will change everything within the tag, but leave the tag itself intact.

2. Changing the Tag Type:

   • To change the HTML tag itself, place your cursor on the tag you want to change, and use the following commands:
     • To change a <div> to a <span>, for example, you can use cit (change inside tag) and type <span>.
     • If you want to change a <div> to a <p>, you can use cit and type <p>.
     • To change a <span> to a <div>, you can use cit and type <div>.

3. Tag Surroundings:

   • If you want to surround an element with a new tag, you can use the surround.vim plugin, which allows you to visually select text and then specify a new tag to surround it. For example, you can select a block of text, press S, and then type the new tag you want to wrap around it.

4. HTML Commenting:

   • To comment out an HTML tag or a block of code, you can use the following shortcuts:
     • gcc to comment a single line.
     • :x,ys/old/new/g to replace old with new in lines x through y (e.g., :1,5s/<div>/<p>/g to replace <div> with <p> in lines 1 through 5).

5. Changing Case:

   • To change the case of an HTML tag (e.g., from lowercase to uppercase), you can visually select the tag and use the ~ key to toggle the case.

6. Auto-pairing Plugins:

   • Consider using Vim plugins like auto-pairs or surround.vim, which can assist in auto-closing and modifying HTML tags.