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Hi gurus, I appreciate all help! I'm using Visual Studio 2019 as my editor.
I'm frustrated atm because every time I hit Enter after a line of code in a .json file it tabs the previous code in, or indents, not sure which one is happening or how to tell. Let me explain differently...
If I have a line of code like this in a .json file:
"parameters": {
"value": "something"
},
and I place my line cursor at the end of the 3rd line (after the comma) and press Enter, my code then gets formatted like this: (Notice it indented line 2!)
"parameters": {
"value": "something"
},
It's very frustrating and I've searched inside the Tools >Options> Text Editor (both general and json) and I can't find what setting is causing this.
Does anyone know?
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Thank you so much to reach out here. I just changed your tag to VS general channel for support.
Regards,
Yutong
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Hello @Brandon Clark ,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.
Please firstly check if there is any installed third-party extension which may affect Visual Studio Text Editor.
After that, please go to Tools > Options > Text Editor > JSON > Tabs > Indenting, and switch to Smart/Block/None then check if this fixes the issue.
If above doesn’t work, I suggest you try to reset Visual Studio general settings from Tools > Import and Export Settings(Refer to this doc for more details).
Feel free to contact me.
Best Regards,
Tianyu
Thank you for the fast reply!
Unfortunately, I already had Indenting on the JSON extension turned to NONE.
*Note, I just installed Visual Studio 2022 (no workload install) and it isn't behaving like this with default settings. So, 2022 is working as expected and I think I'm just going to go forward with this version. However, one other thing to note (I'm sorta new to this IDE), the 2022 Options menu for Text Editor isn't showing all of the extensions like it was in 2019. Do you think this is because I selected a no workload install of 2022 and therefore I'm missing some text editing install?
Let me test resetting 2019 to defaults like you suggested and I'll get back to you, thanks a million!
Hi @Brandon Clark , after some tests, I think the issue may be caused by this option: Tools > Options > Text Editor > JSON > Tabs > Tab > Indent size. Normally it is set to 2 or 4 as default, I’m not sure whether, on your side, the value was changed by accident, but based on my test, it will cause this issue. Besides, resetting VS settings can of course resets this setting.
Do you think this is because I selected a no workload install of 2022 and therefore I'm missing some text editing install?
Yes, I think if you don't install any workload, there is no need to install the corresponding tools/options, so some of them may be missing(note: I didn't try to install a no workload VS, so every options are there, though VS 2022 has somewhere different from VS 2019).