Best HTML editor?
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I need the Wisdom of the Masses. I've been using FrontPage 2003 since, well, 2003. I love it. Simple, fast, allows multi-line search/replace, has a split view of HTML/Markup so I can look at both while I edit, and it has a quick preview. Except that it's old, and I'm not keen on installing Office 2003 components anymore, and there has to be - gotta be! - something even nicer and more fun. Except I can't find anything better. I tried WebMatrix and I lasted all of 2 minutes. I want an HTML editor. I don't want to build an entire website. I just want to quickly fire up an editor, edit, then shut it down. (and hence this precludes using VS) So: 1. Fast and lightweight. 2. Split view while editing 3. Multiline search and replace (meaning I can enter: this is a line and this is another line and it will search for this multi-line pattern) 4. Has special handling of tags (eg remove all tags of a certain type, remove attributes of a certain type etc) Anyone use anything vaguely like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
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I need the Wisdom of the Masses. I've been using FrontPage 2003 since, well, 2003. I love it. Simple, fast, allows multi-line search/replace, has a split view of HTML/Markup so I can look at both while I edit, and it has a quick preview. Except that it's old, and I'm not keen on installing Office 2003 components anymore, and there has to be - gotta be! - something even nicer and more fun. Except I can't find anything better. I tried WebMatrix and I lasted all of 2 minutes. I want an HTML editor. I don't want to build an entire website. I just want to quickly fire up an editor, edit, then shut it down. (and hence this precludes using VS) So: 1. Fast and lightweight. 2. Split view while editing 3. Multiline search and replace (meaning I can enter: this is a line and this is another line and it will search for this multi-line pattern) 4. Has special handling of tags (eg remove all tags of a certain type, remove attributes of a certain type etc) Anyone use anything vaguely like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
I tend to use Notepad++, but Visual Studio Code[^] and Brackets.io[^] might be worth a look.
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I need the Wisdom of the Masses. I've been using FrontPage 2003 since, well, 2003. I love it. Simple, fast, allows multi-line search/replace, has a split view of HTML/Markup so I can look at both while I edit, and it has a quick preview. Except that it's old, and I'm not keen on installing Office 2003 components anymore, and there has to be - gotta be! - something even nicer and more fun. Except I can't find anything better. I tried WebMatrix and I lasted all of 2 minutes. I want an HTML editor. I don't want to build an entire website. I just want to quickly fire up an editor, edit, then shut it down. (and hence this precludes using VS) So: 1. Fast and lightweight. 2. Split view while editing 3. Multiline search and replace (meaning I can enter: this is a line and this is another line and it will search for this multi-line pattern) 4. Has special handling of tags (eg remove all tags of a certain type, remove attributes of a certain type etc) Anyone use anything vaguely like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
I have settled on MS Expressions 4. MS has made it free. It has some degree of auto-completion for javaScript and php. If you have local php instance it can configured to render php locally. Downside: it's not super-up-to-date with respect to HTML5/CSS3. (Think IE8 level) - but that's not been a problems. If you set something as a website it will create some useful metadata to keep things connected.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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I have settled on MS Expressions 4. MS has made it free. It has some degree of auto-completion for javaScript and php. If you have local php instance it can configured to render php locally. Downside: it's not super-up-to-date with respect to HTML5/CSS3. (Think IE8 level) - but that's not been a problems. If you set something as a website it will create some useful metadata to keep things connected.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
Ah - I forgot about expression. I'll give that one a go. Thanks.
cheers Chris Maunder
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Ah - I forgot about expression. I'll give that one a go. Thanks.
cheers Chris Maunder
what about dreamweaver ? my favourite with notepad ++.
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what about dreamweaver ? my favourite with notepad ++.
Sublime text... The best!!!
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Sublime text... The best!!!
Seconded, many useful plugins available also!
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I need the Wisdom of the Masses. I've been using FrontPage 2003 since, well, 2003. I love it. Simple, fast, allows multi-line search/replace, has a split view of HTML/Markup so I can look at both while I edit, and it has a quick preview. Except that it's old, and I'm not keen on installing Office 2003 components anymore, and there has to be - gotta be! - something even nicer and more fun. Except I can't find anything better. I tried WebMatrix and I lasted all of 2 minutes. I want an HTML editor. I don't want to build an entire website. I just want to quickly fire up an editor, edit, then shut it down. (and hence this precludes using VS) So: 1. Fast and lightweight. 2. Split view while editing 3. Multiline search and replace (meaning I can enter: this is a line and this is another line and it will search for this multi-line pattern) 4. Has special handling of tags (eg remove all tags of a certain type, remove attributes of a certain type etc) Anyone use anything vaguely like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
I whould single out next HTML editors for web developers: Phase 5 Programmer’s Notepad SynWrite PlainEdit.NET Notepad++ jEdit Jon - web developer Iflexion
