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Visual Studio JSON indenting

Visual Studio seems to ignore my indenting setting for JSON files. It is indenting 4 spaces, instead of my setting of 2 spaces: indenting settings

When I format the document it looks like this:

formatted document

I am using:

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 (64-bit)
Version 17.5.1

Solution

  • It turned out that the project had an .editorconfig file in the root folder with

    [*]
indent_style = space
indent_size = 4

    This was overriding all the indenting options since it was "Following the project coding conventions" enter image description here

    UX tip to Microsoft: make it somehow visible in the Options window that some settings are overridden.