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Selecting Code

How to Select Code in Expression Web

Expression Web makes it easy to find the code you're looking for.  You can choose to select only the start or end tag, or only the content that resides between the tags, or the tags and the content.

To Select a Tag

In Design or Code view, in your web page, place your cursor in the tag or in content of the tags.  Right click, and then click "Select Tag."  This will highlight the beginning and ending tag and all of the content in between.

To Find a Matching Tag

Let's say you have a page with lots of nested tables, and you're working with a specific cell that contains some other tables.  You have the beginning <td> tag, and you need to find the matching </td> tag.

Right click in the tag. > Select "Find Matching Tag."  Repeat.  The tag you're looking for is now selected.  This also works in the opposite direction if the tag you have located is the closing tag.

To Select a CSS Code Block

Right click inside the code block of the style sheet. > Select "Select Block."

To Find the Matching Brace in a Style Sheet

Place your cursor just after the brace you see.  > Right click. > Select "Find Matching Brace."