How to indent/format a selection of code in Visual Studio Code with Ctrl + Shift + F

I want to indent a specific section of code in Visual Studio Code:

  • Select the lines you want to indent, and
  • use Ctrl + ] to indent them.

If you want to format a section (instead of indent it):

  • Select the lines you want to format,
  • use Ctrl + K, Ctrl + F to format them.

  • you can also indent a whole section by selecting it and clicking TAB
  • and also indent backward using Shift+TAB

And of course for auto indentation and formatting, following the language you're using, you can see which good extensions do the good job, and which formatters to install or which parameters settings to enable or set for each language and its available tools. Just make sure to read well the documentation of the extension, to install and set all what it need.

Up to now the indentation problem bothers me with Python when copy pasting a block of code. If that's the case, here is how you solve that: Visual Studio Code indentation for Python


On OS X, choose "Document Format", and select all lines that you need format.

Then Option + Shift + F.