Good & easy(!) freeware HTML-Editor?
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Good & easy(!) freeware HTML-Editor?
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.
The background is that I'll be giving "Internet Induction" lessons and obviously there will be hands-on experience.
Thanks in advance.
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.
-Nay
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.
-Nay
- twigletmac
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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/
Mac
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Mac
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
]
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
- Vincent Puglia
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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.
Vinny
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.
Vinny
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.
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.
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..
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..
Re: Good & easy(!) freeware HTML-Editor?
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 thoughpatrikG 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.
