How can I see the HTML code live preview on the side tab in the VSCode editor?
end result I want:
CSS, js, PHP, etc should also work in the preview.
The Vscode team has developed a Live Server extension with a lot of coordination with vscode. See v1.58 pre-release notes:
Live Preview
We have developed a Live Preview extension, which hosts a local server for web development previewing! 🎉
It features an in-editor browser preview, live preview refreshing (on file change or on save), multi-root support, and more!
The extension also has a Live Preview task, which runs a persistent server and allows you to view server traffic and its associated files.
To learn more about what it can do, view it in the marketplace or check out its repo.
There are tons of different vscode extensions for browser previews.
The one i'm using is Browser Preview.
To view .php files, you need a server, like Apache.
XAMPP is an all in one solution which offers MySQL, Apache and some other tools: https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html
ty4z's HTML Preview Extension is pretty good:
 JS and CSS definitely work in its preview window, but I haven't tested PHP yet.  My guess is it also probably works since the other two do.
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I just reinstalled windows on my computer. The problem here is that when I was using the visual code editor before reinstalling windows with the live preview extension and it ran perfectly, but now after I installed windows the VC do not give me live preview like before.
It is just showing the HTML structure and not the linked CSS and Javascript files. There is no styling and formatting being shown on the page even though the page displays perfectly on the browser, tried everything but nothing worked. Note that both windows versions are the same no changes in them.[Only HTML shows up][1]
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Yes, it only shows the HTML preview without CSS. You have to use "Live Server" extension for that.
Download that from here:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickdey.LiveServer
GitHub Source:
https://github.com/ritwickdey/vscode-live-server-plus-plus
Preview:
does a .vs code folder appear ? This problem happened to me once and by deleting the file everything went back to normal. IDK if it will work for you but it worked for me.
BTW there is a Youtube video on that topic, here it is a video for CSS files not working on live server
There's a plugin in Visual Studio called Live Server. When you edit and save changes to an html/css file, you don't have to refresh the page if it's open in your browser, it refreshes automatically. Webstorm has similar functionality called Live Edit, but it works in debug mode only.
Also is it possible to make it work with Safari or at least another Chromium browser like Vivaldi, or corresponding extension works in Google Chrome only? Because Live Edit doesn't work without Google Chrome. Thank you.
Live Edit didn't require debugging initially, but we had to re-consider this approach due to multiple bugs/limitations, see WEB-8255 and linked tickets. We are currently investigating a possibility to add "live reload" capability to the built-in web server to make it behave like VSCode Live Server.
We don't have plans to support Live Edit in Safari; to make it work with Vivaldi (or other Chrome-based browsers), you have to configure it in Settings | Tools | Web Browsers:
In Settings | Tools | Web Browsers, press +
Use Chrome as a Family, specify a full path to Vivaldi executable as Path, enter a name:
I am working on writing my first serious website as a personal project and would like to test it for mobile friendliness and compatibility before I go through the process of actually configuring the FTP, etc. Is there a way to do this using just the files locally on my computer? I've tried to research a way to just upload all the site files and view how everything would look on a mobile browser, but I have not been able to find anything. Or, is there a way to open the HTML files on my phone in a browser, i.e. Chrome?
the best way -> https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/
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You can test your website using google webmaster tool here.
If you wanted to test it locally then you can try different extension for different browsers.
for chrome check this extension it will help you a lot.
In addition to others - http://www.mobilephoneemulator.com/.
And of course, you can test your website with your smartphone.
This is kind of a long shot, but I'm at my wit's end. At some point in developing a locally hosted Foundation page, the Chrome Developer tools stopped displaying the stylesheet and line for each individual CSS rule when inspected, but instead just seems to show the media query for the element. I've noticed that other pages I've built with Foundation, locally hosted are doing the same thing. It only seems to be locally hosted Foundation pages that are giving me this problem. Locally hosted Bootstrap pages work as expected, as well as Foundation pages that are actually hosted. I have no idea what is going on here, or why the Developer Tools would just stop working in the middle of a build. I've checked all my settings, went as far as downloading Chrome Canary and am seeing the same results. I'm not running any kind of local server like MAMP, and this have never been an issue in the past.
Any help?
If you are using prefixfree.min.js just remove or comment it out and everything should go back to normal.
I'm pretty sure the answer was in my file folder structure. The parent folder contained a blank " "space, replaced with a - everything seems to work.
Visual Studio 2013 have feature called browser link but i can't make it automatically refresh browser when i save html file. And if i need to use hotkey of browser link then what is benefit of it? Because i can press F5 in browser instead press hotkey of browser link. But if it refresh automatically when html file is modified then it will be very handy.
So my question is, is it possible to automate browser link when html file is modified?
I don't think it is possible by default.
And if i need to use hotkey of browser link then what is benefit of it?
Browser Link is a new feature that creates a communication channel between the development environment and one or more web browsers. You can use Browser Link to refresh your web application in several browsers at once, which is useful for cross-browser testing.
That is refreshing several browsers at once seems to be the main functionality of this feature.
To reload a page every time you make a change to it try one of these:
Tincr - For Chrome.
Auto Reload - For firefox
I have tried many ways to get browser refresh to work with VS 2013, other IDEs and text editors. In my search I have found the one (in my option) that works best is live-server.
Very easy to install with node nmp
https://www.npmjs.com/package/live-server
npm install -g live-server
Here it is on GitHub https://github.com/tapio/live-server