Is there HTML tag creation shortcut in Visual Studio?

Question

I'm wondering if there is any keyboard shortcut that allows you to create HTML tags fast..

For example, if I want to create something like this

<div><ul class="short"><li>*</li><li>*</li><li>*</li><li>*</li></ul></div>

Can I write something like div>ul.short>li*5{*} and hit a shortcut key to have the tags above created for me?

thanks!

Answer 1

You can download an extension for Visual Studios called "Web Essentials". It's a highly recommended extension for anyone doing web development and provides LOADS of easy helper functionality. For your particular question, it has something called Zen Coding. Here's a Blog describing the benefits and use:

http://dannydnet.blogspot.com/2013/12/vs2013-web-essentials-zen-coding-is.html

Here is a link to the list of other features that may be helpful to you as well: http://vswebessentials.com/features/html