I was working on some old HTML/JSP (I didn't write this stuff but it works) and I tried Ctrl-W expecting a certain behavior - and was disappointed. For this code: <img ALIGN=MIDDLE BORDER=0 HSPACE=5 VSPACE=1 ALT="" SRC="images/1_tr.gif"> If the cursor is somewhere in the word MIDDLE then the first Ctrl-W should select the word middle - and it does. The second should select the whole attribute "ALIGN=MIDDLE" - but it doesn't. I guess that the third should select all of the attributes - doesn't do that either. The final ctrl-W should select the entire tag - that does work.