How to navigate between begin and end html tag in Vim?

Question

For example, if I want to jump to the close form tag. how could I do this?

Answer 1

The matchit.vim plugin, in conjunction with the html.vim filetype plugin, will allow you to do this. One way to load the matchit.vim plugin is to put this in your ~/.vimrc:

runtime macros/matchit.vim

If you don't already have filetype plugins enabled, also put this in in your ~/.vimrc:

filetype plugin on

Then when you edit an HTML file, you can jump from a tag to the matching tag by typing %. You can find out more by executing

:help matchit

Answer 2

You can jump between tags using visual operators, in example:

1. Place the cursor on the tag.
2. Enter visual mode by pressing v.
3. Select the outer tag block by pressing a+t or i+t for inner tag block.

Your cursor should jump forward to the matching closing html/xml tag. To jump backwards from closing tag, press o or O to jump to opposite tag.

Now you can either exit visual by pressing Esc, change it by c or copy by y.

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To record that action into register, press qq to start recording, perform tag jump as above (including Esc), press q to finish. Then to invoke jump, press @q.

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See more help at :help visual-operators or :help v_it:

at a <tag> </tag> block (with tags)

it inner <tag> </tag> block

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Alternatively use plugin such as matchit.vim (See: Using % in languages without curly braces).

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See also:

• How to jump between matching HTML/XML tags? at Vim SE
• Jump to matching XML tags in Vim at stackoverflow SE
• How can I find the close html tag quickly in vim? at stackoverflow SE
• Navigating HTML tags in Vim at stackoverflow SE
• VIM jump from one xml tag to the closing one at Unix SE
• How can I select an html tag's content in Vim? at superuser SE