How to delete HTML tags, not the contents in Vim
With the surround.vim plugin installed, press d s t to delete surrounding tag.
Similar shortcuts:
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d s ( - delete surrounding parentheses
() -
d s " - delete surrounding double quotes
"" -
d s ' - delete surrounding single quotes
''
and so on...
A simple solution would be (with the cursor anywhere inside the tag):
yitvatp
What this does is:
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y- yanks -
it- the inside of the tag -
vat- selects the entire tag -
p- pastes the previously yanked text over it