HTML/XML Tag Objects

it / at — operate inside an HTML or XML tag pair.

Keys: it, at

it is the inner range between matching <tag>…</tag> pairs. at includes the tags themselves.

If you spend any time in markup, it and at pay rent. They jump out from the cursor to the nearest enclosing tag pair.

Change the contents of the surrounding tag

Key	Note
`c`
`i`
`t`

Delete the entire tag pair (open + content + close)

Key	Note
`d`
`a`
`t`

Visual-select the whole tag pair

Key	Note
`v`
`a`
`t`

it / at — tag objects

Tip. JSX, Vue, and other HTML-in-code templates: it and at usually still work — Vim doesn't know JSX, but <Component> and </Component> look the same to the regex matcher.

Reference

Object	Range
`it`	Inside <tag>…</tag>
`at`	Including <tag>…</tag>

Worked example — cit and cat

HTML/XML tag objects.

Step 2 · `cit` · cit — inner-tag content cleared.

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See also: Bracket Text Objects, The Vim Grammar