Best HTML Editors Overview

There are many HTML editors available these days that are both free to download and are quite user friendly. Notepad is the simplest, oldest, and the most commonly used editor. But these days web designers and developers are opting for more advanced WYSIWYG (What You Say Is What You Get) editors like Dreamweaver, now offered by both Adobe (formerly by Macromedia).

Let’s check out some best HTML editor:

Simple Text Editors

Notepad

This is an open source editor that can either be downloaded from Internet or is installed automatically when installing Windows. Its features are user-friendly interface, ability to word wrap and syntax highlighting with different colors. Supports HTML, XHTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, and the list are endless…

Emacs

This editor is available for text editing and scripting writing. The distribution of emacs is available for both Windows as well as Ubuntu platforms.

gedit

gedit has been designed for GNOME desktop environment. It supports graphical user interface multi-tab files and print ready material in PDF and PostScript.

Source Code Editors

EditPlus

EditPlus is a substitute for the usual Notepad editor because it has enhanced features like previewing files in web browsers and supports FTP commands uploading local files from and to the server.

HTML-Kit

It has simple to advanced features and multi-browser previewing options in various browsers. It helps to create standards compliant web pages.

Notepad++

Like Notepad, this too is a free source code text editor and supports syntax highlighting and even more powerful editing features than Notepad.

WYSIWUG Editors

Adobe Dreamweaver

It is the most obvious choice for many designers and developers due to the FTP facilities and site management. It allows you to split your code as well as design window. The coding environment supports color coding and indentation.

CoffeeCup HML Editor

It supports HTML validation, FTP manager, color coding, search and replace function, edit XML and RSS, and allows saving x(HTML) pages with DTD.

WordPress

With the help of themes and plug-ins, a WordPress editor allows you to manage the font size and name of the headings, manage links, and have a full control for the administrator/author to manage the website, whatever way he likes. Hence, it is known as a CMS or Content Management System.

Among other best HTML editor, we’ve UltraEdit that has been identified as the best best application of the year 2005 by the Shareware industry. Notepad2 supports column editing, add and replace, keyboard shortcuts, and drag and drop facility. TextPad comes in both 16-bit and 32-bit editions, and is useful for beginners to advanced level users. TextMate has been designed for Mac OS X and gained popularity due to its powerful Windows and downloadable bundles. Kedit or KDE editor is a great spellchecker. Another most common is MS-DOS editor that is hardly used these days. It is a menu-based application.