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If you’re involved in web development and, for some reason, you haven’t given a ride to IntelliJ IDEA 14.1 yet, this will talk you into doing it right away. Has it happened to you that you changed an HTML or an XML tag in your code and broke it because of forgetting to change both the opening and the closing tag? Of course it has, it happens once in a while time and drives you really crazy. That’s why we let IntelliJ IDEA provide a little bit of a help with this: The new option is called Simultaneous <tag></tag> editing and is available in Preferences/Settings → Editor →

Recently we've added a new code highlighting feature that should make it easier to work with big and complex HTML files, with deep nested tags structure: Please note that highlighting is only activated when there is more than one tag with the same name in the hierarchy. By default, only 6 parent tags are highlighted with 6 different colors. You can change the depth to highlight or completely disable the feature in Settings | Editor | Appearance | Enable HTML tag tree highlighting. Also you can tweak the colors in Settings | Colors & Fonts | HTML. This feature is very new and we want yo

With IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2 you can edit HTML and CSS code really fast using Zen Coding features. To use it, you have to install Zen Coding plugin for Web IDE/IntelliJ IDEA: go to Zen Coding Project Download Page, download an archive that contains a set of live templates, and extract it to "<Your Home Directory>.IntelliJIdea90configtemplates" folder ("~/Library/Preferences/IntelliJIDEA90/templates" for Mac OS X). Zen Coding plugin involves more than 200 different HTML and CSS live templates. To see all of them, just open Settings (Ctrl+Alt+S), Live Templates, Zen Coding group. Native

It often happens that we need to edit HTML code inside JavaScript literals. With Maia this is at last possible, and even with pleasure! Completion, quick documentation, and navigation for HTML, CSS and even JavaScript inside JavaScript literals is at your service :)

If you ever coded a Web project, you know that all the errors in those HTML / JavaScript files are detected only during run time. Starting next build IntelliJ IDEA 9 (Maia) will help you to spot the problems much earlier. Just invoke Inspect code action from the Analyze menu on the necessary files. (more…)