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Is there a way to have this feature in Notepad++:

  1. select some text
  2. insert an html <tag>``</tag> around it (ie. <strong>, <em> etc)
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I've found a plugin that does that, Webedit and it's available in Notepad++'s Plugin Manager (Plugins > Plugin Manager > Show Plugin Manager).

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    Gone in v7.8.2.
    – Laurie Stearn
    Commented Dec 15, 2019 at 5:34
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There's three ways to do this

Using the fingertext plugin

  1. install "FingerText" plugin. (tested 0.5.60 version).
  2. download finger text snippet.
  3. select text, press alt+/.
  4. for example type b (you can create your own "snippet tag" later).
    Notes: some version notepad++ must edit:
    $[![]!] to $[![(key)SELECTION]!]
  5. press tab or enter

  1. You can install any of this:

  2. select text, found and click menu "wrap with abbreviation".

  3. type your tag
  4. press Ok

Using multiple edit steps:

  1. Preparation step

    • click "Setting" > "Preferences" menu.
    • click Editing tab.
    • check "Enable (Ctrl+Mouse click/selection)" in "Multi Editing Settings" groupbox

  2. Execute this step

    1. Click before text, Ctrl+Click after text, like this:

      ` click here  `   text    Ctrl+` click here `

    2. Typing whatever <tag>, will be around like this:

      <tag>text<tag>

    3. Press Ctrl+← twice, and type /

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  • You can and should consolidate all 3 posts into one answer, actually
    – Journeyman Geek ♦
    Commented Nov 21, 2012 at 1:50
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    please explain fingertext again, that's confusing me. Let say a simple text "abc" and i want to enclose it in <b>abc</b> how to add its snippet.
    – Wasim A.
    Commented Jul 19, 2015 at 8:28
  • this should be the accepted answer . +1
    – Obmerk Kronen
    Commented Oct 4, 2015 at 15:41
  • How did you know about the SELECTION option? It's nowhere in the docs and this is the only reference I've found online about it. Are there others? Looking through the binary, I see SELECTIONORPASTE also.
    – pbarney
    Commented Mar 15 at 2:55
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Solution found at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34724634/notepad-shortcut-to-add-brackets-around-highlighted-text

1) Mark text
2) Goto Macro -> start recording
3) Cut highlighted text (CTRL+C)
4) Type: "{" then do CTRL-V then Type "}"
5) goto Macro -> Stop Macro
6) Save Macro as a shortcut
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Try going into TextFX / TextFX Settings and check 'auto close XHTML tags'. This makes it work in plain HTML files too. You may need to install it if using a newer version of Notepad++

Click Plugins > Plugin Manager > Show Plugin Manager On the "available" tab check the box by "TextFX Characters" Click Install Restart Notepad++ Enable the auto-close XHTM features as described above.

Is this what you had in mind?

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  • Interesting, bit doesn't work for multi-line selection. So doesn't when you want to insert multiple <li> tags. Only the last <li> is closed with </li>.
    – Nux
    Commented Jul 22, 2020 at 13:04

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