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How to Open & Live Preview HTML,CSS & JS Files in Default Browser in VSCode IDE Editor
Jul 9, 2025
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Uh hello guys, welcome to this video. So
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in this video, I'll show you a VS Code
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extension which allows you to open and
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live preview your HTML, CSS and
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JavaScript files
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uh with live preview. So if you go to
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extensions tab, just type here open
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browser
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preview. This is the extension here.
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It's used by almost 2 million developers
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and it's a very simple extension which
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actually adds a capability to open your
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directly your HTML files, CSS files and
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JavaScript files directly in your
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default browser. So this is the thing
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you simply need to click the install
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button to click the to install this
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extension. So after you install it,
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simply go to your HTML file and right
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here if you right click you will see
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this option addit
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preview inside your default browser. So
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whatever is your default browser it can
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be Chrome, it can be Firefox. So if you
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do this automatically your application
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will open.
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You will see that
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Again,
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if you do this, it will add this option
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right here in the context menu and
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automatically
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you will now be able to edit file. If I
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change the background color
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just refresh.
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So as you can see as I'm adding this
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content it can be JavaScript as well.
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So it's a very basic extension but it
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will save you a lot of time here because
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it adds this option right in the context
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menu preview in default browser or you
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can even put the shortcut key Ctrl F1.
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This is a shortcut key on the keyboard
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but it adds this option here preview in
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default browser.
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So it basically opens it in a file
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protocol.
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So definitely install this extension.
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Also check out my website
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freemediatools.com
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uh which contains thousands of tools.
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