Deleting HTML tags with vim

Question

How can I easily delete blocks of text surrounded by HTML tags?

Say I come across a block of text that is surrounded by <div> tags. How can I easily delete everything within the tags, and the tags themselves, all at once?

Answer 1

Text objects are your friends...

• dat : "delete around tag"
• dit : "delete inside tag"

There are also similar operations for changing the text (cat and cit) and selecting it visually (vat and vit).

Have fun!

Answer 2

When in the <div>, say, you can do dat