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What editor or IDE can I use to write html code?
I mean that I write my C++ code in Visual Studio, for example...
so where can I write HTML code?
Have a look at Notepad++ - it's not an IDE but a great editor with syntax highlighting for many languages (such as HTML).
I'm deploying Aptana Studio. Makes a very nice and professional cross-platform developer tool with code hinting not only for (X)HTML but JavaScript/jQuery as well. Very pleased with it.
I can't state the same about Dreamweaver though.
I would suggest using an editor such as Adobe Dreamweaver to begin. However, to answer your question you can write HTML in notepad or any text editor. Simply save the file with a .htm or .html extension, and your file will be executed with any browser.
You can write HTML with any text editor.
But you might want to have a look at Looking for a simple HTML text editor for Windows.
If you want to learn HTML, you should avoid WYSIWYG-editors such as Dreamweaver.
You could use a normal text editor. Powerful editors such as VEDIT have syntax highlighting for HTML and CSS, help entering HTML tags with specific buttons, menu items and snippets, and even have complex functionality for manipulating tables etc.
The advantage of using text editor is that you can use the same tool for all your editing, including programming, so the tool is familiar for you. (However, that may not be your case since you use Visual Studio.)
If you do not use a text editor for other purposes, the best option is to get a dedicated HTML editor, such as HTML Kit. It is a freeware editor specifically created for editing HTML, and it contains lots of useful toos, such as HTML Tidy. But you are still editing the HTML code instead of trying to do "desktop publishing" with WYSIWYG.
More HTML editors can be found from the Wikipedia page Comparison of HTML editors (but that includes WYSIWYG-editors, too).
Read http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp for information on HTML
You can write it in whatever texteditor you want, try Aptana Studio for instance. Just save the file with a .HTML or .HTM extension and open the file in you browser.
As Sev says, Dreamweaver is certainly a good tool for beginners.
If you just want to play around in HTML, you can also use an online WYSIWYG editor such as
http://htmledit.squarefree.com/
http://www.online-html-editor.org/
If your goal is to make a website, I would install a CMS such as Wordpress or Joomla. Then you can edit the HTML directly when it is necessary for advanced features, but you don't have to.
You can write HTML in Visual Studio, for example. However, you would usually make a web application in Visual Studio, not just a single HTML page.
I use Notepad to write single HTML pages. It has nothing special that helps you to write HTML, but on the other hand it's as simple as it gets, so nothing gets in your way.
If you write HTML code in Notepad, you have to write everything manually. If you use a software product designed for web development such as Adobe Dreamweaver and MS Expression Web, it will create code for you as you drag and drop controls. You can also look at the code file and edit it when you want.
I do all my web development in gVim. It is hands down the best syntax highlighter/autoindenter I've found, and has tons of little shortcuts that make editing text files very quick.
If you're not doing a ton of development, though, maybe you should just stick to Notepad, as it's something almost everyone is quite familiar with.
Check out w3schools.com for some great tips on getting started with HTML and all the other joyous languages you might want to learn as well.
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I'm trying to make pretty pages hosted on a MediaWiki server, and I tend to spend a lot of time dealing with javascript and HTML and CSS while editing these wiki pages.
Now, the wiki editor on MediaWiki is really really basic, just a textbox. I would like to have things like syntax highlighting, tab-completion, and indentation help when I'm editing my pages.
Is there something that could give me those tools?
Or maybe help me download the Wiki, edit, and then sync the changes back up?
You can try VisualEditor (a WYSIWYG editor that's very capable but somewhat hard to set up) or WikEd (a simpler syntax highlighter). CodeMirror also does syntax highlighting and it has more developers working on it but is somewhat experimental at the moment.
Disclaimer: This question is not about fixing visual studio
So, I've used VSS for so long to edit HTML source that I actuall completely forgot there was a design view button. So for fun I clicked it. When I clicked it here is what I got.
Now, I fully expected it to look like crap since my styles are defined in separate css files. This got me wondering. Has there ever been a WYSIWYG editor that will render a page while editing using all stylesheets even external ones?
I think that WebPutty would help. You embed a WebPutty script on your site and it allows you to edit your CSS real-time and publish to your site as well right from WebPutty. It's not as powerful as Coda but does the trick if all you're concerned about is adjusting your CSS.
Dreamweaver. *cough
The design view is usually pretty close, but sometimes chokes for no apparent reason.
I would check out Coda and Espresso - both of these editors render external stylesheets in the design view when editing html. They also have beautiful interfaces and embedded ftp clients : )
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First of all, I do all my coding strictly in code view in Dreamweaver for a good few years now. I could do all my coding in Notepad, but Notepad doesn't have any features. :) I've never thought of changing because I just got used to Dreamweaver over time. But now it's starting to irritate me here and there. I also want to switch to a more lightweight editor.
What I don't like in Dreamweaver is that tabs can't automatically be changed to spaces (very annoying, any solutions are welcome too). It also creates a lot of useless whitespace everywhere.
I love Dreamweaver's automatic auto complete for html and css, this speeds up my coding very much because I don't have to type out every character. I've tried some other editors, but I really miss this feature. Dreamweaver also auto completes css classes from included css files in the header.
Is there any other editor that has similar features? Free or license is fine. I like Sublime Text (http://www.sublimetext.com/).
Thanks!
I went for PhpStorm eventually. Love it!
Notepad++ is the best for Window: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
I've came to a solution that, though it's not lighter than Dreamweaver (as you requested), is very robust, works like a charm and was quite a productivity boost!
Check out:
Eclipse + Aptana as a plug-in (how to auto-upload on save)
If you enjoy html markup completion then snippets in Textmate for Mac is amazing. I use it all the time for all my HTML and CSS work. However if you are a windows person I hear E-TextEditor is the best replacement for Textmate. Both require licenses.
You might be interested in HTML-Kit.
Your don't want to use Dreamweaver and you want Dreamweaver theme in other editor which is not load like Dreamweaver then sublime is best for you,
Download sublime from this link and follow this step to apply Dreamweaver in sublime.
Click here to download Dreamweaver Theme Zip File
How to apply colour scheme like Dreamweaver CS5
1. Download zip file from Dreamweaver Theme File Link
2. Extract folder
3. Open sublime and goto "Preferences">"Browser Packages..">"Paste extract folder here"
4. Restart Sublime
5. Select color scheme from sublime, to select color scheme Goto "Preferences">"Color Scheme">"SublimeDreamweaver-master">"SublimeDreamweaver-master">"Dreamviwer"
6. Restart Again your sublime
7. Now open your file to see effect
8. Thanks
Change Font like dreamviwer after apply color scheme of dreamviwer.
1. Goto "Preferences">"Setting - User"
2. Add this line is your setting json, "font_face":"courier new"
3. Save enjoy
Thanks
Microsoft Expression Web. It is not free...
I have tried PHP Designer 7 and it rocks with its features. Most of all, you get autocomplete for methods / variables in PHP classes.
If you use a PC, you could try out VisualStudio express / Visual Web Developer, which is free.
http://www.microsoft.com/express/product/
If your real trouble is tabbing and spacing the you could actualy try to modify those settings at Edit > Preference > Code formatt. this should help.
Once you modify the setting apply it to the page.
or
You could also look at Netbeans is a powerful tool too. Buts its a bit heavy weight.
If you want it only for HTML purpose , then while installing do not install unnecessary modules.
Did you try Stylizer from skybound.ca? I've been using it and you can visually modify the CSS or code it using the side bar. Works pretty good but is not as feature rich as Dreamweaver.
Microsoft Visual Studio Code or Brackets (much less simpler).
Plus appropriate plugins.
Why?
Because you can run terminals in which you can compile your server side code or TypeScript, run NMP or run server auto refresh on code save.
Access git easily.
Have intellisense for bootstrap classes or other frameworks.
Debugger, and more
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I need a WYSIWYG editor Component that I can use in the Delphi application to create the body of the email in HTML.
We've used TRichView just recently to do HTML email functionality and found it quite adequate. We did evaluate WpTools and it does do exactly what we wanted however for our needs it was just too expensive especially when we always try and purchase site licences.
One thing we did find with WpTools is that it did implement a visual component or set of visual components that you could drop onto a form that implement the whole WYSIWYG UI (e.g. toolbars and such). It took a bit longer with TRichView to achieve the same thing.
Regarding conversion from/to html - TRichView can export html natively, however requires third-party libraries to import html which unfortunately (for us) are not commercially backed (i.e. community driven). So we've resorted to storing all content in RichText natively and only when sending the email do we convert it to html. WpTools has the ability to import/export to html natively.
I have been looking for this as well for several years now.
The best solution I found, until now, is WpTools from WpCubed. It's not an exact Html editor, but an advanced word processing component which offers a copy mode to and from html. I am currently working on using this component in my Sitestepper web creation software (in the StepEdit html-editor to offer wysiwyg possibility). I think that certainly for email editing this could be used (although maybe a bit pricy for what you are looking for). I know the author is working an a better exchange to and from html.
But to be honest, I don't think you will find anything if you need a Delphi component.
I used to use HtmlEdit from Purposesoft, but I think this product has got his limitations and it's not fully supported anymore. But maybe for your purpose it's ok.
I've used EmbeddedWB from bsalsa. Basically it is the same as Delphi's TWebBrowser, but you have access to more features of the IE automation object. In the browser I loaded an HTML which looks like:
<html>
<head>
<title>Edit description</title>
</head>
<body contenteditable="true">
</body>
</html>
Marking an element by IE specific attribute "contenteditable", the IE implementation let's you edit the element's inner HTML in a WYSIWYG manner. You can get the content by automation calls (check bsalsa.com to see how to read the edited content). If you get the basics it is pretty simple to create a full blown HTML editor.
Good luck!
My answer using Bsalsa Web Browser Components - very easy complete HTML editor/viewer.
delphi-how-do-i-make-a-basic-wysiwyg-html-editor-using-delphi
If using IE COM based components is not a problem then you can use this free product
http://bsalsa.com/product.html
I have just recently needed a free HTML WYSIWYG editor and I thinks this is the only thing out there. For me it works fine, but I don't need complicated elements. They can be done, but will a little more work.
I'm looking for a HTML editor that kinda supports templated editing or live snippets or something like that.
Background: I'm working on a website for a friend. As there are no specifications what the webspace/webserver can or can't do, I decided to make it a pure HTML/CSS page, or rather 10 of them. I wrote a template, copied it 10 times and edited the content. And guess what, the template has to be changed.
Therefore I'm looking for a (HTML-)editor that has some kind of live template system where I can edit the content in as it where plain text and then save the project into the 10 pure HTML/CSS files.
I thought about using PHP (the only script language I've some knowledge in), but writing the underlying template script would cost me enough time that I could change all files by hand. I'm not that familiar with AJAX to know if there's a way to load content from another file. If so, this would be an option if there already is a script. With Webdeveloper (firefox extension) I could save the generated source code as HTML/CSS.
Thanks in advance
Edit: any hints how to do this without an editor are welcome
Edit2: In my mind the tool looks like a plain old text editor like SciTe, but capable of editing multiple files simultaneously in the same text area, so it looks like editing one ordinary file, but actually it's a whole bunch of files.
Dreamweaver will do this for you, it's had HTML templating of the type your describe built in from very early versions (because from how you phrase the question I do not think you're thinking along the lines of a PHP templating engine such as Smarty, but some sort of HTML layout formating)
Although I regularly look around for Dreamweaver replacements, and I've certainly been impressed by Aptana, I still tend to use Dreamweaver in my development stack simply because whereas I can compensate for some of the more coding-orientated features it misses, I find the WYSIWYG nature of the editor invaluable.
I would have used a template engine.
I wrote a post about a dead simple script using the Dwoo template engine and mod_rewrite, where I am taking the uri and loading the forrect data and template based on that. You should be able to get it running in a few minutes.
Maybe I am way off on this, but why don't you look into an Open Source Content Management System (PHP/MYSQL)? There are MANY light systems that are not like Drupal, Joomla (if you do not want the big bulk of those CMS's).
There are even a few good ones for light web design that are flat file driven.
That would be my suggestion, at least if not for this project, look into it for future projects.
Here is an example of a great micro CMS that would seem to fit the bill for what you are doing:
http://www.mini-print.com/