Delete text in between HTML tags in vim?

Question

I know

di<

will delete in an HTML tag itself.

Is there an easy way to delete text in between two tags?

Answer 1

dit will delete the text between matching XML tags. (it is for "inner tag block".)

See :h it and :h tag-blocks.

Answer 2

If you're aiming to do the inverse of deleting text between flags, I suggest installing Vim-Surround and running dst which deletes the surround tag

Answer 3

cit
ci"

Two of the best productivity enabler commands of vim.

I save a lot of time and effort with just those two.

Answer 4

try dt< while the cursor is on the first character to delete. In your example the 'H'.

Answer 5

(cursor on first character to delete) v/<[enter]d

This solution starts on the first character, then enters visual mode ("v"). It then searches for the next start bracket ("/<"), and then press enter to exit the search.

At this point, your visual selection will cover the text to delete. press d ("d") to delete it.

If I had to do this for a bunch of tags, I'd record the command and combine it with some other searches to make it repeatable. The key sequence might look like this:

[cursor on start of file] qa/>[enter]lv/<[enter]dnq

then press:

20@a

to do this for 20 tags