HtmlView is a free VS 2015 extension for Web developers.
It provides the HTML editor an area where it shows a preview of your HTML page. Essentially it is a Chromium engine inside Visual Studio showing your HTML page. Behind the scenes, I am using the excelent CefSharp library to instantiate a Chromium browser.
Features
- Chrome DevTools (shortcut: F12)
- Console area shows any log output (errors or console.log() calls)
- CTRL+SHIFT+CLICK any element to inspect it
How to use
- first install it by downloading at VS Gallery
- previewer by default is always OFF for all .HTML files
- you must enable it in a per-file basis; to do it add the following line at the start of your HTML and save the file:
<!-- HtmlView:on -->
- it is always ON for files named 'unittest.html'
- you can toggle the previewer by simply setting it to off (or just remove the first line) and save the file:
<!-- HtmlView:off -->
- you can make the console area always visible:
<!-- HtmlView:on, console:off -->
For Sciter developers
The cool thing is that you can use this extension aside with OmniView, and you can simultaneously preview your HTML in Sciter engine and in a Chrome-based browser. I really don't know the usefulness of this, but anyway:
