Moving, Duplicating and Deleting

The most common thing you'll do in your editor is move, duplicate and delete lines. Historically, we have done this with the use of copy/paste and the delete key when necessary. VS Code contains functionality that makes this process much more productive.

Here are a few more keyboard shortcuts to add to your repertoire.

Action	Keyboard Shortcut
Duplicate line	Opt/Alt + Shift + Down/Up Arrow
Move line	Opt/Alt + Down/Up Arrow
Delete Line	Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + K

Note that you don't need to select a line in VS Code to copy/cut it. Just put your cursor anywhere on the line and press Cmd/Ctrl + C or Cmd/Ctrl + X and the entire line will be cut or copied. This is the default behavior of the editor.

Open the "index.html" file in the "start" folder.

Move the "title" tag above the "link" tag.

• Put your cursor anywhere on the "title" line

• Press Opt/Alt + Up Arrow

Duplicate the "description meta tag

• Put your cursor anywhere on the line with the "meta" tag that has a name of "description"

• Press Opt/Alt + Shift + Down Arrow

• Change the "name" attribute to be "og:description"

Delete the "description" meta tag

• Put your cursor anywhere on the line that has the meta tag with a name of "description"

• Press Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + K