Surround WIth

If you have Web Essentials installed, you can use Shift+Alt+W to surround a selection with a tag.

See http://vswebessentials.com/features/html#surround-with

The poor person's "surround with", when you don't have web essentials.

Select your text
Press Ctrl-X to cut it to clipboard
Type your tag, which Visual Studio will automatically close with your cursor remaining in the middle of the start and end tag

Press Ctrl-V to re-insert your text between the tags

Source

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/191463/how-do-i-wrap-a-selection-with-an-html-tag-in-visual-studio

http://vswebessentials.com/features/html#surround-with

http://stackoverflow.com/a/35178430/49