How to comment multiple lines in Visual Studio Code?

Question

I cannot find a way to comment and uncomment multiple lines of code in Visual Studio Code.

Is it possible to comment and uncomment multiple lines in Visual Studio Code using some shortcut? If yes, how to do it?

Answer 1

Shift+Alt+A

Here you can find all the keyboard shortcuts.

All VSCode Shortcuts

PS: I prefer Ctrl+Shift+/ for toggling block comments because Ctrl+/ is shortcut for toggling line comments so it's naturally easier to remember. To do so, just click on the settings icon in the bottom left of the screen and click 'Keyboard Shortcuts' and find "toggle block...". Then click and enter your desired combination.

Answer 2

First, select the lines you want to comment/uncomment (CTRL+L is convenient to select a few lines)

Then:

• To toggle line comments, execute editor.action.commentLine (CTRL+/ on Windows)

  or

• To add line comments, execute editor.action.addCommentLine (CTRL+K CTRL+C)

  To remove line comments, execute editor.action.removeCommentLine (CTRL+K CTRL+U)

  or

• To toggle a block comment, execute editor.action.blockComment (SHIFT-ALT-A)

See the official doc : Key Bindings for Visual Studio Code

Answer 3

How to comment out multiline / single line in VS Code:

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MacOS:

Shift + Option + A:

/* multiline    
   comment */

CMD + /:

// single line comment    

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Windows:

Shift + Alt + A:

 /* multiline
    comment */

CTRL + /:

// single line comment

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How to remap / change these shortcuts?

Windows: File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts.

MacOS: Code > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts.

You can search through the list both by keybindings (key names) and command names.

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Read: How to set shortcuts from another text editor (Sublime, Atom etc)?

Official docs: Key Bindings for Visual Studio Code

Answer 4

The keyboard shortcut to comment multiple in Windows is shift+alt+A.

Answer 5

In my case, Ubuntu, the shortcut is ctrl+shift+A.

Answer 6

You can see all available keybindings on the official documentation.

Here's the relevant bit for osx:

Key     Command

⌘K ⌘C   Add Line Comment    
⌘K ⌘U   Remove Line Comment 
⌘/      Toggle Line Comment 
⇧⌥A     Toggle Block Comment

You will need to select the lines you want to comment first, then execute above shortcut, i.e. ⌘/ on osx Ctrl/ on Windows.

Answer 7

For my keyboard layout it's Ctrl + § for:

//
//
//

And Shift + Alt + A for:

/*
...
*/

Answer 8

To comment multiple line on visual code use

shift+alt+a

To comment single line use

ctrl + /

Answer 9

In MacOS comment out multi-lines in Visual Studio Code by keyboard shortcut:

Option + Shift + A

/*
...
...
*/

Or,

Select all lines and then press CTRL + /

Answer 10

1. Select all line you want comments

2. CTRL + /

Answer 11

Win10 with French / English Keyboard CTRL + / , ctrl+k+u and ctrl+k+l don't work.

Here's how it works:

/* */ SHIFT + ALT + A

// CTRL + É

É key is next to right Shift.

Answer 12

For me to comment I use:

Ctrl + k, Ctrl + c

and to uncomment:

Ctrl + k, Ctrl + u

I am using ubuntu 18.0.4

Answer 13

CTRL + SHIFT + A for CSS multiline

• Ubuntu 16
• VSCode Version 1.17.2

Answer 14

In the new version of VSCODE ( version 1.26.1)

1. Go to File > preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts
2. Search for comment Double click the existing shortcut 'keybinding`
3. And press the new keyboard shortcut in my case ctrl + shfit + /

You can assign any shortcuts you want. Hope it helps.

Answer 15

You can find the shortcut in the Edit menu :

Edit > Toggle Block Comment => Shift-Alt-A

Answer 16

If you are using VSCode in a linux environment, then you can comment multiple lines by either:

Selecting a block of code => then, press Ctrl + Shift + A (Block commenting)

Or, selecting a block of code => then, press Ctrl + / (Single-line commenting applied to all selected lines)

Hope this helps.

Answer 17

visual studio 2017 we do a: Comment Selection

Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C

press Ctrl+K to get shortcut. press Ctrl+C to confirm http://visualstudioshortcuts.com/2017/

Answer 18

For doing on mac: CMD + Shift + 7

Answer 19

All the key board shorcuts for VS code can be found in the link : Link

• Add a Line comment Ctrl+K Ctrl+C
• Remove a line comment Ctrl+K Ctrl+U
• More shortcut Ctrl+/

Answer 20

Try option 1 first. If it doesn't work for you then try option 2 which is the actual shortcut for VS Code:

Option 1. Alt / Option + Shift + A

Option 2. While the text is selected hit Ctrl / Cmd+K and then Ctrl / Cmd+C.

As of now (version 1.57.0), you can check all available keyboard shortcuts by going to File > Preferences > Keyboard shortcuts. Here you can search for shortcuts related to code comments.

For users who are coming from Sublime Text or likes to have Ctrl+Shift+/, you can make the change from the above mentioned setting or simply install the Sublime Text Keymap extension by Microsoft.

Answer 21

Select lines which you want to Comment

Then press Ctrl + / to make selected lines comment

And to uncomment:
Select the commented lines you which want to uncomment
First press Ctrl + K then Ctrl + Uto make commented lines uncomment

Answer 22

For multiline commenting in Python VSCode, all you have to do it just:

Ctrl + /

Answer 23

On Windows 10 you can use CTRL + } to comment/uncomment on any line or block of code.

Answer 24

1.Select the text, Press Cntl + K, C to comment (Ctr+E+C ) 2.Move the cursor to the first line after the delimiter // and before the Code text. 3.Press Alt + Shift and use arrow keys to make selection. ... 4.Once the selection is done, press space bar to enter a single space.

Answer 25

In windows you need to press ctrl + / in mac you can do ⌘ + / to make multiple comment

// public function index()
// {
//     $badgeIcon = BadgeIcon::all();
//     return $this->showAll($badgeIcon);
// }

Then if you want to un-comment then select the lines again and then press ctrl + /(in windows) again ⌘ + /(in mac).

Answer 26

CTRL + SHIFT + A For Red Hat,centos

• Select item
• then CTRL+SHIFT+A

Answer 27

For me it was ctrl + ' (I am using a swedish layout for the keyboard). Hope that helps anyone.

Answer 28

Multi-Line Comment in VS Code

To comment the code select the lines and hit: Alt + Shift + A

To Uncomment select the commented code and hit: Alt + Shift + A

Answer 29

For windows, the default key for multi-line comment is Alt + Shift + A

For windows, the default key for single line comment is Ctrl + /

Answer 30

In Windows

Select the lines you want to comment. Then press Ctrl + /