I find myself having to copy/paste chunks of HTML in my idea and frustrated when I have to completely rename the individual IDs of elements when I could have easily done a simple replace on them.

e.g., I'd have s1_something, s1_somethingElse, s2_something, s2_somethingElse, ... s9_something, s9_somethingElse

If I try and copy paste the code for the s1_something, s1_somethingElse elements it's replaced with Text1, Text2 (in reality there are about 16 elements in this group.)

My work around was to name the first set as s9_ then copy them then change it to s1, so that way there were no elements with s9 until I was at the end.  Now my client wants me to add 6 more, so I have to go through the process again.

I've scoured the IDE options but have had no luck finding an option to disable this behaviour, does anyone know if this is possible?
 

Hi OriginalSyn,

From your description, I understand that you would like to copy and paste the HTML elements with duplicate ID. In addition, you don't want Visual Studio to change the ID element automatically.

If there has been any misunderstanding, please let me know.

Based on the current situation, I suggest implementing it by unchecking the option: Auto ID elements on paste in Source view.

We can find it in Tools | Options... | Text Editor | HTML | Miscellaneous