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in previous versions of Visual Studio, you could collapse the html blocks, but that appears to be missing in VS2012. Any ideas on how to enable that feature again?

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  • stackoverflow.com/questions/1729841/… no a duplicate but related on how to colapse a whole document ctrl+M+O;
    – Kieran
    Commented Dec 12, 2013 at 23:19
  • One thing I noticed is that outlining can be broken by anything that's not strict XHTML. So if you have a meta or br element that is not self closing, the parser will continue to look through the rest of the document for the closing tag. Weary from searching, it will give up and refuse to outline anything.
    – KyleMit ♦
    Commented Jun 18, 2014 at 1:28

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I was having this issue too and it was driving me nuts. Turns out that, somehow, I turned off "Automatic outlining" which meant that I did see the plus/minus signs and the shortcut Ctrl + M + M didn't work either.

After I turned on Automatic Outlining in Edit > Outlining > Start Automatic Outlining everything went back to normal.

NOTE: On some ocassions, for this solution to work, you also need to close and reopen the document before clicking on Start Automatic Outlining. In fact, sometimes that option doesn't appear in the menu if you don't do so.

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    That is very wired. I had to switch ON the automatic outlining, in order to get the element collapsing to work. I will still upvote this answer because it did help me somehow.
    – Idrees
    Commented Nov 11, 2012 at 14:17
  • Same as @Idrees - I had to switch ON outlining.
    – Samik R
    Commented Feb 7, 2013 at 5:28
  • ditto. had to turn it off.
    – Ray Suelzer
    Commented Apr 20, 2013 at 4:54
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It's still there. The issue is that sometimes it takes a while for the parser to visually enable collapsing.

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Try Ctrl + M + M and you'll see the effect

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I prefer using Ctrl + M + H whenever I want to hide unwanted code irrespective of any tree hierarchy. This works great even if I want to hide my commented code.

You just need to select the code that you want to collaspe and hit Ctrl + M + H and its hidden now :)

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When you open the font .cshtml, you will have go to EDIT->Outlining->Start Automatic Outlining

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Just hover your mouse on code editor and wait a moment, don't move your mouse :)

The outline tree will show out.

before and after

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  • hey what is your font name buddy i like it
    – Burak Ogutken
    Commented Dec 23, 2014 at 15:05
  • @BurakOgutken haha! the font's merged by myself, uses Glass_TTY_VT220 and msyh and some style adjust, you can get it from drive.google.com/open?id=0BydI37B8JmUeUmVNaTJJV2FzN00
    – IlPADlI
    Commented Dec 24, 2014 at 4:04
  • Sorry i am first time to using google driver, the file was set to share :)
    – IlPADlI
    Commented Dec 25, 2014 at 3:27
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right click on html, cshtml or aspx file in solution explorer and select open with option:
in dialog select html editor and click on set as defualt button.
open html or cshtml or aspx file and enjoy html file with outline html tag. :)

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