HTML Editors

Arachnophilia is a HTML editor (written in JAVA) with an internal browser "Instant View" mode shows your HTML changes as you make them with each keystroke! It supports up to 6 Web browsers and switches between them in a flash. Arachnophilia offers development of HTML, frames, CGI, Perl, C++, Java and Javascript with many intelligent tools and functions, as well as a built-in intelligent FTP client, that automatically uploads changed files to your server. In addition, it offers powerful keyboard macros, that can include system commands, even other macros, for maximum flexibility. User-defined toolbars provide any tags or content you need for any of the supported languages and support system commands as well.

PSPad editor is a programmers editor with support for multiple syntax highlighting profiles. It comes with a hex editor, CP conversion, text differences, templates, macros, spellcheck option, auto-completion, Code Explorer and much more. The program is pre-configured for the most popular programming languages (VB, C++, SQL, PHP, ASP, Python etc.) and you can further customize the syntax settings. PSPad includes several additional tools that are especially useful for HTML editing (compress, format code) and also integrates TopStyle Lite and TidyHTML. The program can be used as IDE for any compiler. Additional features include support for project, file browsing, custom shortcuts, built-in FTP client to edit files on the server and much more.

CSE HTML Validator Lite is a fast, easy to use HTML development tool that will help you to write syntactically correct HTML code. The program will help you locate and fix HTML problems so that your documents are easily viewed by a variety of web browsers. You can even fix your documents inside of HTML Validator by using the integrated editor. The program offers interactive error highlighting, allowing you to quickly view and correct the incorrect code without having to search for corresponding line numbers. Other features include customizable validation settings, spell checking, HTML editing and more.

Beerwin`s PlainHTML is a HTML and code editor that supports syntax highlighting, code templates, browser preview, CGI/PHP/HTML reference, table layout designer, shortcuts to common HTML tags and more. The program also include several additional tools for picking colors, creating navigation bars, keeping notes, stripping tags and other functions. Other features include customizable toolbars and links to external tools, HTML validation, integrated update checker and more.

Alleycode HTML is a unique HTML editor with many features and two way synchronized code/design view (Synchro View). The Synchro View enables you to see the HTML page in a browser preview, while writing the code, and also click on any element in the rendered page, and have the cursor jump to the corresponding code section. Alleycode also comes with customizable syntax highlighting, CSS style sheet wizard and most other common editor features, as well as a meta tag optimizer and support for PHP code. Other features include a Turf view (full screen) as well as project support.

BlockNote for the Net is an easy to use WYSIWYG HTML editor. It offers an easy to understand interface without clutter and confusing options. You can create a web page similar to creating a document in your word processor - just type the text, select fonts from a drop menu, apply formatting styles and more. You can also insert images and even paste rich text sections while maintaining the original formatting. BlockNote includes helper dialogs to create tables, insert URLs and more. The program contains enough HTML features to create a basic web page without confusing the user with too many complicated dialogs and features that he may not need. The finished web page can be sent by email or exported as PDF or MHT Web Archive document. Great for beginners, but not of much use for an established webmaster.

Araneae supports multiple documents open at once which you can easily access through the tabs at the bottom of the screen. With helpful tools such as syntax highlighting, a colour picker, drag and drop image insertions, date insertion, and multiple browser support, Araneae can significantly reduce the amount of time you spend coding your HTML pages

Dynamic HTML Editor (Free) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor that takes advantage of the absolute positioning techniques of CSS 1 (style sheets). It allows you to design web pages by simply dragging elements into place. You can also take advantage of advanced CSS features like overlapping images and other techniques that are not possible with plain HTML. CSS is supported by all major browsers, so your web page will look the same to every visitor. Dynamic HTML Editor (Free) can be used to create HTML, ASP, PHP, CFM, JSP, XML pages and also provides an option to insert code elements if needed. You can import images, associate events to part of labels, pictures, input fields and more. Great for beginners to design a web page, but also very handy for established webmaster that want to generate CSS based page layouts.

FirstPage 2006 is a full featured web development editor with support for HTML, XHTML, PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, Javascript, CSS, SSI and Perl. It offers traditional source editing with real-time browser preview, as well as a design mode for WYSIWYG editing. First Page 2006 provides a comfortable, tabbed interface with a resource bar to access files, tags , manage projects and view the document tree. Other features include integrated FTP upload, spell check, web gallery creator, tag stripping and conversion, Tidy HTML and much more. The trial does not expire, and can be used freely with most features. The program is no longer actively developed. NOTE: Some anti-virus programs may alert you of a virus caused by a sample prank Java script (Six buttons...) that comes included with the software. You can safely disregard this warning. Read this or google it for more details.

MAX`s HTML Beauty++ 2004 is an advanced HTML editor with customizable syntax highlightning, drag & drop editing, right-click tag editing, template support, spelling & grammar check and more... It offers various tag designer dialogs for almost every HTML tag, quick access to frequently used HTML tags, and a built-in image viewer and GIF optimizer. Additional features include built-in Java scripts (rollovers, DHTML menus, slideshows, etc.), support for HTML TIDY, internal browser preview, full-screen editing, resource panel and much more.

MEdit is a multipurpose editor that can be used to edit local files as well as remote files via FTP. It comes pre-configured with syntax highlighting for many languages, including PHP, Java, HTML, SQL and more. You can create multiple FTP profiles, allowing you to quickly connect to a server in order to edit files. MEdit ofers a multi-document interface, so you can edit more than one file at the same time, and switch between them using the tabs. Additional features include support for bookmarks as well as search and replace.