# HTML rename start and ending tag
**URL:** https://discuss.codemirror.net/t/html-rename-start-and-ending-tag/9499
**Category:** v6
**Created:** [September 11, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://discuss.codemirror.net/t/html-rename-start-and-ending-tag/9499 "2025-09-11T13:08:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@shshaw](https://discuss.codemirror.net/u/shshaw)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://discuss.codemirror.net/t/html-rename-start-and-ending-tag/9499/1 "2025-09-11T13:08:48Z")
When using lang-html, is there a way to enable renaming both the start and end tag?
E.g. If you have `Hello
` , can you rename to `Hello
` by only selecting one of the tags and typing `h1`?
This used to be possible in CodeMirror 5 but `matchBrackets` functionality in CodeMirror 6 and `matchClosingTags` in lang-html don’t seem to work in the same way. Not sure the official name for that feature, so maybe my searches have just been wrong.
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### Author:  [@marijn](https://discuss.codemirror.net/u/marijn)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.codemirror.net/t/html-rename-start-and-ending-tag/9499/2 "2025-09-11T19:00:59Z")
It is possible to implement something like this using the parse tree, but indeed, lang-html doesn’t provide it as a command or similar.
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### Author:  [@shshaw](https://discuss.codemirror.net/u/shshaw)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2026, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.codemirror.net/t/html-rename-start-and-ending-tag/9499/3 "2026-09-09T21:12:47Z")
Just wondering if this has changed at all in the past year.
Are there any ways built-in to CodeMirror to offer renaming the start and end tag at the same time?
If that functionality isn’t available, how would you even go about adding that?