Where Is The Visual Studio HTML Designer

Where is the visual studio HTML Designer?

The default HTML editor (for static HTML) doesn't have a design view. To set the default editor to the Web forms editor which does have a design view,

1. Right click any HTML file in the Solution Explorer in Visual Studio and click on Open with
2. Select the HTML (web forms) editor
3. Click on Set as default
4. Click on the OK button

Once you have done that, all you need to do is click on design or split view as shown below:

Visual Studio 2019 edit HTML file

Right click your html page.Click open with.

Then you can see:

Click HTML Editor and Set as Default.

Visual Studio 2022 HTML Editor Custom Intellisense - IHtmlCompletionListProvider

We solved it.

We decompiled Microsoft.WebTools.Languages.Html.Editor.dll, to see how default HTMLCompletionListProvider is defined.
You are supposed to use ContentType("html"), instead of ContentType("htmlx").

[HtmlCompletionProvider("Children", "*")]
[ContentType("html")]
[Name("DurandalElementsCompletionProvider")]
public class DurandalElementsCompletionProvider : IHtmlCompletionListProvider

How to view an HTML file in the browser with Visual Studio Code

For Windows - Open your Default Browser - Tested on VS Code v 1.1.0

Answer to both opening a specific file (name is hard-coded) OR opening ANY other file.

Steps:

1. Use ctrl + shift + p (or F1) to open the Command Palette.

2. Type in Tasks: Configure Task or on older versions Configure Task Runner. Selecting it will open the tasks.json file. Delete the script displayed and replace it by the following:

   {
       "version": "0.1.0",
       "command": "explorer",    
       "windows": {
           "command": "explorer.exe"
       },
       "args": ["test.html"]
   }
   

   Remember to change the "args" section of the tasks.json file to the name of your file. This will always open that specific file when you hit F5.

   You may also set the this to open whichever file you have open at the time by using ["${file}"] as the value for "args". Note that the $ goes outside the {...}, so ["{$file}"] is incorrect.

3. Save the file.

4. Switch back to your html file (in this example it's "text.html"), and press ctrl + shift + b to view your page in your Web Browser.

How can I use the Razor editor found in Visual Studio 2019 in Visual Studio 2022?

Go to Tools → Options → Text Editor → HTML → Advanced and set the "Use legacy Razor editor for ASP.NET Core" to true.

My Visual- Code-Editor is not showing the included CSS in the Live preview

Yes, it only shows the HTML preview without CSS. You have to use "Live Server" extension for that.

Download that from here:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickdey.LiveServer

GitHub Source:
https://github.com/ritwickdey/vscode-live-server-plus-plus

Preview:

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