Disable Visual Studio automatic id renaming

Question

How do you disable the annoying automatic renaming of id in Visual Studio when you copy paste? For example, if you have

<p id="myID"></p>

and you copy and paste it in the same file, Visual Studio renames it to

<p id="P1"></p>

I want it to highlight the duplicate id but not change it automatically.

Thanks

Answer 1

See here – ajp15243

Step1: Go to the menu bar and click on 'Tools' and then 'Options'.

Step 2: On the popup screen than appears there is a little checkbox in the lower left corner that says 'Show All Settings'. Make sure that is selected.

Step 3: Expand the 'TextEditor' option and expand the 'HTML' option.

Step 4: Click on 'Miscellaneous' and untick the option 'Auto ID elements on paste in Source view'.

Step 5: Click OK and now when you paste any html content or code with the same ID values as what is in your project Visual Studio will not rename the IDs.