I'm new to VS Code, coming from ST3 and TextMate before that. A bit flummoxed why is HTML not autodetected nor is it offered as a choice of language after clicking on the lower-right language indicator?
I've tried explicitly adding "files.associations": {"*.html": "html"} to the User Settings to no effect.
Running VSCode v1.15.1 on macOS v10.12.6.