Workaround for HTML closing tag problem

In Visual Studio 2012, HTML tags will fail to be automatically closed when using the following keyboard layouts:

• Canadian Multilingual
• Croatian
• Czech
• Hungarian
• Latvian
• Polish
• Romanian
• Serbian
• Slovak
• Slovenian

On these keyboards, the “>” character is typed by pressing AltGr+. or RightAlt+.

Work around

1. Open the Tools/Customize dialog
2. Click the “Keyboard…” button
3. In the “Show commands containing:” text field, enter: view.autoclose
1. The list view will display “View.AutoCloseTagOverride”
2. “Shortcuts for selected command” will display: Ctrl+Alt+. (HTML Editor Source View)
4. Press the “Remove” button
5. Press the “OK button
6. In the Customize dialog, press the “Close” button

Typing an HTML tag will now result in the closing tag being automatically inserted, as in VS 2010.