Instead, this can be done by installing a formatting extension onto your VS Code application. VS Code doesn’t have a native command that formats your document on save.

Save changes by selecting Save from the File menu or by pressing “Ctrl + S”.

Press “Ctrl + [“ to decrease the indent.

Press “Ctrl + ]” to increase the indentation.

Move your cursor to the beginning of the line in which you want to change the indention.

Save your file by choosing it from the File menu in the upper left corner of the window or by pressing “Ctrl + S”.

To move the line upwards, press the up arrow.

Move your cursor to the beginning of the line that you wish to move.

If this happens, just close the clicking the “x” button or pressing Esc. Note that if you press “Ctrl + F” without first pressing “Ctrl + K” you’ll open up the Find Menu.

Save the changes either by choosing “Save” on the File menu in the upper left corner or by pressing “Ctrl + S”.

On the file with the lines of code that you wish to format, select the lines by highlighting them with your mouse.

The formatting can be set to Unix or Windows.

Word-breaking behavior differs between OSes, and for navigation purposes, the text editor needs to know where words begin or end.

Smart - indents on the following line based on the code.

Auto - sets the caret to the same column on the next line.

None - sets the caret to the start of the next line.

Indentation can be set to None, Auto, or Smart.

You can also choose to format the file when saving it, which allows the writing of code as desired and leaves the IDE responsible for formatting code as set by existing preferences.

On-the-fly code formatting is triggered by character presses, such as semi-colon or braces, which will emulate the formatting preferences that are set.

Matching closing braces can be added automatically to code when creating new classes, methods, or properties.

These actions are set under Visual Studio > Preferences > Text Editor > Behavior, and some of the more commonly used functions are described below: Visual Studio Code Format Json

Editor behaviors can be set to allow code to be formatted as it is written.

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