looking for an html code editor

[Elderly Newt]

I'm looking for an editor that would be just like notepad, but with context highlighting. I don't want it to reformat my code or anything: just a plain text editor with html/css context highlighting. Anyone know of such a thing? Thanks.

 

[MSCoder610]

http://www.jedit.org/ syntax highlights those, and a bunch of other stuff too. It can also match opened & closed braces, parentheses, etc.
Pretty nice, it is Java-based though.

 

[clamum]

I'd say do a search but who knows if you'll find anything since the search doesn't work very well. Anyway, I use PSPad.

 

[brikis98]

Notepad++ is another good one. Does syntax highlighting for a ton of languages (including HTML), has dozens of cool features and power tools, is free, etc.

 

[stevf]

crimson editor is also free and works good for html & css - only problem I saw with it was that embedded css wont be hightlighted - but then other editors with highlighting dont either. But if your css is a seperate file, then it will highlight it It supports multiple files open at once and you can find and replace across several files at once - handy for editing multiple pages

 

[erikistired]

i used alleycode for awhile. pretty nice, does all the highlighting and supports tabs.

 

[mugs]

You're going to get a lot of suggestions. Everyone has their favorite full-featured text editor (and some prefer not-so-full-featured editors ). Most people use exactly one text editor before arriving at their favorite, because there are so many that are very good. Ignore all of those people. Listen to me. I know the one that is the best. EditPlus. Granted, I haven't spent extensive time with any other text editor. I've spent a bit of time with some others... but I digress. EditPlus is great. In addition to syntax highlighting and a very powerful find and replace feature (including regular expressions), it also has built-in FTP (unfortunately not SCP though). There are syntax files available for just about every language.

http://www.editplus.com

 

[jjones]

I do the majority of my work in dreamweaver, but EditPad Pro is my quick and dirty editor. Lots of handy features.

 

[Markbnj]

Given your description of what you're looking for, check out SciTE.

 

[Diz2K2]

PsPad

 

[WildHorse]

I've used Arachnophilia for several years.

Very powerful.

 

[mulletgut]

The result is Notepad2, a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system's registry.

Notepad2 at Sourceforge

I love it.

 

[kingtas]

http://www.htmlkit.com/

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: scott
I've used Arachnophilia for several years.

Very powerful.

I used to use this when I was maintaining some webpages regularly. It works well (although it's HTML/CSS-specific and doesn't cover other things like a more generic text/code editor might).

 

[Modeps]

Eclipse with Aptana

http://www.eclipse.org
http://www.aptana.com