Remove a Plugin from Brackets HTML Code Editor

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You're watching VisiHow. In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to remove a plugin from the Brackets HTML code editor.

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   Open Brackets

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   We will scroll down to our taskbar to get started. We have Brackets pinned to the taskbar. It has a white icon with a blue border around the box. Click the icon to launch Brackets. Now let's open the Extension Manager.

   

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   Click "File"

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   It is near the top left-hand corner of the program. This opens a dropdown menu.

   

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   Click "Extension Manager..."

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   It's near the bottom of the dropdown menu.

   

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   Alternatively, click the icon on the far right side that looks like a Lego block

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   This is our preferred way of accessing it.

   

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   Wait for the Extension Manager to load

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   We do need an Internet connection to access the available extensions.

   

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   Click the "Installed" tab

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   It's the third tab, next to "Available" and "Themes", and to the left of the search bar.

   

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   Look at what is already installed

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   At the moment, we have a word counter installed. Let's remove that.

   

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   Click "Remove"

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   This button is on the far right side, next to the plugin that we want to remove.

   

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   Note that the "Remove" button disappears

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   It now says, "Marked for removal".

   

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    Click the "Esc" key on the top left-hand side of the keyboard

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    Read the pop-up window

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    It tells us that we need to remove the extensions and reload.

    

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    Click "Remove Extensions and Reload"

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    It is the blue button at the bottom of the pop-up window. The program will remove the extension and reload automatically. Let's confirm that the extension has been removed.

    

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    Click on the Lego block icon to go back to the Extension Manager

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    Give it a moment to load up

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    Click on the "Installed" tab

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    Look at the installed extensions

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    In our case, we now have no extensions installed in Brackets.

    

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    Press "Esc" on the keyboard to exit the Extension Manager

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    Now we're back in our document and we can begin making edits or changes to it as we would normally.

    

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    This concludes our tutorial on removing a plugin or extension from the Brackets HTML code editor

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    If you have any additional questions or comments, do please let us know in the section below. Otherwise, thanks for choosing VisiHow and have a great day.

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