What HTML editors are available?
NOTE: The below are recommendations made by participants in alt.html. They include both Open Source and proprietary products. This page is not meant to be a definitive recommendation but rather a list of thoughts of alt.html posters. You are adviser to download trial editions of commercial products and try them out yourself before splashing out significant amounts of money.
You should not expect an editor to shoulder the responsibility for making your page compliant with multiple browsers. That is something you will have to do yourself. An editor should be evaluated by its ability to asist you in doing what you would otherwise do manually in a plain text editor.
Windows Tools
- Arachnophilia: It's only as complicated as you want it to be. You can use just as a text editor if you choose. And its great find/replace functions are very useful for those of us that are SSI-impaired. 1stPage may be better, but Arachnophilia has plenty of features.
- 1st Page 2000: has a lot of bells and whistles but none of them have to be used. It offers four different modes of web authoring; for the beginner, the intermediate, the advanced, and the "hardcore" web author.
- TextPad: it's got useful syntax highlighting and macros. It doesn't give you any help though.
- HomeSite: A tag based editor that is designed for webdevelopers rather than webdesigners. Full of useful features like collapsible tags, colour syntaxing, validation and linting.
- CuteHTML: Normal colour syntaxing, allows you to edit pages directly on the FTP server.
- Emacs / XEmacs: Possibly the most powerful text-editor on the planet. This is more than a text editor, its an entire desktop. With (X)Emacs you can surf the web, read your mail, read newsgroups, play games, compile applications without leaving the application at all.
- vi: The original line based editor. Light and super quick. Great for the quick edit over a remote connection. Has colour syntax highlighting
- nedit: using the HTML syntax-highlighting set and a custom /etc/words
- Notepad: It's fine for quick edits, but if you're working on a large project something with a MDI and project management is far better.
- NoteTab:(Lite) free, no syntax highlighting. It has a neat, programmable clipbook. There is also a pro version of NoteTab Light, which naturally has more features, including syntax highlighting. NoteTab Light also integrates with HTML Tidy.
- HTML-Kit: it isn't WYSIWYG, but it has a very quick preview facility, and excellent integration with HTML-Tidy. It will highlight the syntax of your HTML, CSS and Javascript.
- Ultra-Edit: worked just fine
- EditPad Lite:
- EditPlus:
- Ballpoint Pro: - freeware
- CoffeCup HTML:
Good webpage editors for Linux
- Quanta Plus: Homesite clone running under KDE in *nix enviroments. Quanta Gold is the commercial version which has excellent authoring tools for PHP, ColdFusion, XML, Python and Perl.
- Bluefish: GNOME based HTML editor, looks sleek and has the usual features. Good PHP facilities
- Screem: An open-source integrated web development package running under GNOME in *nix based systems. Looks like an impressive Homesite clone under X.
- Amaya
- IBM Websphere Homepage Builder: Easy to use, and doesn't rely so heavily on the templates. It doesn't change the markup to something it likes if you hand code and with the built in validator its really hard to make a mistake. Even the wysiwyg will only produce html4.01 compliant code, and also has a built in w3cwai accessibility checker.
- Emacs / XEmacs: Possibly the most powerful text-editor on the planet. This is more than a text editor, its an entire desktop. With (X)Emacs you can surf the web, read your mail, read newsgroups, play games, compile applications without leaving the application at all.
- vi: The original line based editor. Light and super quick. Great for the quick edit over a remote connection. Has colour syntax highlighting
If you need more info then do a search for HTML Editors on Google's Linux Resources.