What is the property name to break long lines in VS Code?
The menu under File > Preferences or press Ctrl+, (on Mac Code > Preferences > Settings or press Command (or Cmd) ⌘+,) provides entries to configure user and workspace settings. You are provided with a list of default Settings.
Set editor.wordWrap: on in your User Settings or Workspace Settings under preference.
Select the below options to change to the desired settings.
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Off- Lines will never wrap. -
on- Lines will wrap at the viewport width. -
wordWrapColumn- Lines will wrap at "Editor: Word Wrap Column". -
bounded- Lines will wrap at the minimum of viewport and "Editor: Word Wrap Column".
You can toggle word wrap for the VS Code session with Alt+Z (macOS: Option (or Alt) ⌥+Z) or select View > Word Wrap from Menu.
For more about User and Workspace Settings or Key Bindings for Visual Studio Code
On Windows, press Alt + Z (macOS: Option ⌥ + Z) to toggle word wrapping, or, select View > Toggle Word Wrap from VSCode Menu.
For Windows, Pressing Alt+Z will break the line.
For Windows users do the following in -->
- Open VScode
- Go to Settings(Gear icon on the bottom-left side)
- Click Settings in the menu
- In the searching bar search for "word wrap"
- Click the drop-down menu and change it to "on"
This setting will wrap your words according to your editor: viewport.
In case this auto wrapping isn't working you can press --> Alt + z to wrap content