You don’t even want this account!Īs you can see from this GIF here, out the box Visual Studio Code has limited support for SVG because we know that it treats it like XML. Like the person who registered the Twitter name “Burke.” What the heck, Sam! You haven’t tweeted in….YOU’VE NEVER TWEETED! Sam, if you’re reading this - tweet at me and let’s talk. This person was first to the game and got the coveted SVG name all to themselves. Here are a few of my favorite extensions for working with SVG in VS Code.

This got me wondering, if VS Code treats SVG like XML, what extensions are available to help me work with SVG in VS Code? It turns out that there are quite a few, and some work better than others. Here is a great joke about XML to soothe your anxiety: “XML is like violence: If it isn’t working, you aren’t using enough of it” - Unknown I just triggered a bunch of you, and for that, I apologize.

You would need XSLT to render it into something you could view. SVG is markup and VS Code treats SVG files like XML, which is only text. It turns out that VS Code does not provide a visual preview for SVG files from within the editor. At this point in my life, that is an enjoyable and fulfilling activity. Because I like to zoom in on SVG and watch it not degrade. My next thought was to see if it worked on SVG images. So I opened a project that I had to test it out and sure enough, it works as advertised. I mean, let’s face it - there are only two types of people in the world: those who like to zoom in on images and those who won’t admit it. I thought that was an interesting feature. Towards the end, he shows how you can now zoom in on image previews in VS Code. Check out this VS Code release highlights video from Brian Clark.

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