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.

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.

  • 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

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