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Best html editor?

  • 29-10-2013 10:49am
    #1
    spongebob89
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭


    Goodmorning, Dose anyone know a free HTML css editor that automatically closes your tags for you and maybe highlights when the code is wrong, I already downloaded komodo and another one but didnt have this feature, anless theres a setting I didnt know about

    Any help appriciated, thanks


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  • #2
    fl4pj4ck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,001 ✭✭✭fl4pj4ck


    try SublimeText2, you will need to add some plugins to make autotags work


  • #3
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,003 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Notepad++. Tried loads and keep going back to it. Sublime is also nice, but Notepad++'s "find in all opened files" feature is the best I've come across,

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  • #4
    SweetCaliber
    Registered Users Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭SweetCaliber


    Yeah sublime is awesome but Notepad++ has some features that are just brilliant.

    Brackets.io is also nice, very clean layout although it has a couple of bugs, still though once its stable, will be switching to it.


  • #5
    fl4pj4ck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,001 ✭✭✭fl4pj4ck


    aaand as always - KomodoEdit


  • #6
    spongebob89
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭spongebob89


    Do any of these kits have the auto close tag feature im looking for though ?


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  • #7
    SweetCaliber
    Registered Users Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭SweetCaliber


    spongebob89 wrote: »
    Do any of these kits have the auto close tag feature im looking for though ?

    Brackets.io does but as I said it's still quite buggy and can get frustrating at times but nonetheless its still functional.

    Thats the one thing I love about it, besides from the clean layout, the auto close feature as I am a lazy developer :p


  • #8
    spongebob89
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭spongebob89


    SweetCaliber wrote: »
    Brackets.io does but as I said it's still quite buggy and can get frustrating at times but nonetheless its still functional.

    Thats the one thing I love about it, besides from the clean layout, the auto close feature as I am a lazy developer :p

    Haha cheers I will try it out, do you recommend and one for javascript too ?


  • #9
    SweetCaliber
    Registered Users Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭SweetCaliber


    spongebob89 wrote: »
    Haha cheers I will try it out, do you recommend and one for javascript too ?

    WHen you say for javascript do you mean one that has good syntax highlighting?

    If so then they all do, well Notepad++ could do with an update on it's highlighting but nothing major.

    If your looking for an auto complete feature, I'm not sure but correct me if I'm wrong, there should be plugins for sublime, notepad ++ and so on for this, but I'm not sure.

    If not, you'd be most likely better off to go with an IDE. Komodo is my favorite and it's cross platform, so you can use it on Linux, Mac and Windows and its clean.


  • #10
    bpmurray
    Registered Users Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭bpmurray


    Eclipse Web plugins have JS, CSS and HTML editors which do colour-coding and tag closing (well, the JS & CSS editors do "{" closing), although it might be a bit overkill if you're only doing static HTML. Remember it also has Java, PHP, etc. support which is useful for a full web app.


  • #11
    samc36
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭samc36


    bpmurray wrote: »
    Eclipse Web plugins have JS, CSS and HTML editors which do colour-coding and tag closing (well, the JS & CSS editors do "{" closing), although it might be a bit overkill if you're only doing static HTML. Remember it also has Java, PHP, etc. support which is useful for a full web app.

    Yeah, I think if you're not gonna be using Dreamweaver, or something similar, Eclipse is the next best thing. On the more basic side Notepad ++ is great, can be used for PHP, HTML, JS etc...


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