Good & easy(!) freeware HTML-Editor?

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Good & easy(!) freeware HTML-Editor?

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Does anyone know a good and easy freeware HTML-editor for Windows and/or Mac? There is no need for advanced stuff like server-side languages tag-highlighting, etc. Just a plain, straightforward HTML-editor with possibly some Javascript-options (no must that).

The background is that I'll be giving "Internet Induction" lessons and obviously there will be hands-on experience.

Thanks in advance.
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1st Page 2000:

http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml#download_now

NOT a WYSIWYG editor like FrontPage or Dreamweaver. Highlights codes and all. Tabing etc. Makes codes easier to read.

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From what I've heard (haven't used it myself) HTML-kit is pretty good:
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

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HTML-Kit is wonderful - very nice, everything I would wish for. I'll see how newbies will cope with the plethora of options.

I'll have a look at "1st Page 2000" tomorrow.

Thanks! :D
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Personally, I like Notepad for Windows, and BB Edit for Mac OS.
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I use notepad as well, and have never used an HTML editor like HTML-kit and am wondering what some of the advantes to using an editor are?
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Without wanting to launch a discussion about pros and cons of editors, I do not expect the casual non-geek who wants to quickly create one or two HTML-pages to have to type in every little thing.

Especially not when I am teaching them...

I assumed I was clear in my original question. ;)
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Post by McGruff »

I use Edit Plus - and occasionally Dreamweaver. Making use of the cliptext feature in EditPlus would pretty much remove any advantages a heavyweight like Dreamweaver has for quick form generation etc.

EditPlus isn't strictly freeware though...
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Post by Derezo »

Personally, I use SciTE. Scintilla Text Editor.
It's like a programmers notepad.
Supports a huge number of languages - PHP, HTML, CSS, XML, Java, JavaScript, and about 20 or 30 others.

You can get it here: http://www.scintilla.org

[edit: and yes, it's open source

but are you looking for a page editor? (ie. drag and drop)
or an html editor? It sounds like you're looking for an html editor, but some page editors were mentioned :P]
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Link to what's somewhat related to your question.
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Post by Vincent Puglia »

Hi,

I use cuteHTML ver 1.0 ( http://www.globalscape.com ) -- there is a newer version, but I never bothered upgrading, though I probably should. HTML tags and attributes appear in a dropdown. You can run the code from the editor, set defaults for a new page (meta tags, script tags, html tags, etc.), etc., etc.

Best of all it comes with line numbers and color coding.

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Post by Unipus »

nigma, the biggest advantage is code formatting (by color, indent, etc.) that makes your pages much easier to scan and comprehend at a glance.

Other terribly useful features include tag autocomplete (you type 'ali' and it knows to finish it as 'align=""', for instance. Another good one is auto-detecting styles from attached CSS documents, and autocomplete on those as well.

Auto-closing tags, etc. etc. Basically, once you've spent a bit of time in a full-featured text editor, working with plain black Courier will be an enormous pain in the ass, and you won't want to go back.
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Post by Method »

there are many... i have used codegenie and winsyntax... both of which just parse the code... but that is a great help of course...

i have tried html-kit, just to see what it was like, and didn't care for it...

i am looking for one now that will parse more than one language in a document... but, no luck yet..
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Re: Good & easy(!) freeware HTML-Editor?

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patrikG wrote:Does anyone know a good and easy freeware HTML-editor for Windows and/or Mac? There is no need for advanced stuff like server-side languages tag-highlighting, etc. Just a plain, straightforward HTML-editor with possibly some Javascript-options (no must that).

The background is that I'll be giving "Internet Induction" lessons and obviously there will be hands-on experience.

Thanks in advance.
if you don't need it to actually write the code, there's nothing better than xemacs/emacs. not only can they use it for html, they can later use it for ANYTHING else they want. it has m$ ports as well as ALL posix complaint and compatable oses... not sure about pre osx mac though
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