A Visual Studio extensions that provides to the HTML editor an area where it shows a preview of your HTML page. Essentially it is a Chrome based browser inside Visual Studio showing your HTML page. Internally it uses on CEFSharp.
- CTRL+SHIFT+CLICK any element to inspect it
- JS method to check if you viewing your HTML inside HtmlView:
HtmlView.active == true - Chrome DevTools (shortcut: F12)
- Console area shows any log output (errors or console.log() calls)
- previewer by default is always OFF for all .HTML files
- you must enable it in a per-file basis; to do it add the following line at the start of your HTML and save the file:
<!-- HtmlView:on -->
- it is always ON for files named 'unittest.html'
- you can toggle the previewer by simply setting it to off (or just remove the first line) and save the file:
<!-- HtmlView:off -->
- you can make the console area always visible:
<!-- HtmlView:on, console:on -->