How to select the block of text between two tags (html, xml, ...) in vim?

Question

I want to select the inner text between the xml tag. e.g., I want to select Default in this text:

<UserID>Default</UserID>

I know how to use Vi to select text in the quote and bracket delimiters (e.g., "", (), [], ...). I tried both Vi< and Vi>, and neither of them selected any text.

Is there any command to quickly do that?

Answer 1

In normal/command mode, type the commands vit while in the tag.

mnemonic: "visual in tag"

:help v
:help v_it (inner tag block)
:help text-objects