visual studio code - HTML syntax not highlighting correctly

Question

The syntax highlighting for .html files does not work.

However, highlighting for .css files does work. Any ideas what should I do?

If anyone might find it important (though none of them affect HTML other than the indentation colors one, and I use the default Microsoft VSCode HTML syntax highlighting), this is the list of my extensions:

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65871739/html-syntax-not-highlighting-correctly

Answer 1

I solved the issue. I realised that once when I was meddling with something I added by accident a single character to the beginning of the file Microsoft VS CodeResourcesAppExtensionshtmlsyntaxeshtml.tmLanguage.json which made VSCode unable to parse it. The highlighting works now.