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need recommendations for an HTML editor

Asked by: williampeck

I am doing some intermediate level web page development and want a really good HTML editor, one that will allow me to increase the level of sophistication of my work.

I love CoffeeCup's HTML editor but it does not have a "Find Next" feature, and that is a must have for me. I have a simple page but there is way to much code to be scrolling up and down all day.

I am fairly new to web page development so not up to speed on vendors, tools, etc.

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Asked On
2009-09-21 at 04:17:40ID24747958
Tags

HTML

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XHTML

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CSS

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JavaScript

Topics

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

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Extensible HTML (XHTML)

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Answers

 

by: greenhacksPosted on 2009-09-21 at 04:21:33ID: 25381754

are you looking a paid one or opensource?

 

by: mattibuttPosted on 2009-09-21 at 04:22:03ID: 25381757

there are  no right or wrong answer its something you will comfortable with there are 100s of tools for web development are you doing any server side development or its just html ?

 

by: williampeckPosted on 2009-09-21 at 04:29:51ID: 25381802

greenhacks, looking for a paid one like CoffeCup

mattibutt, no server side development now but definitly in the future, I want to be able to get more and more sophisticated.

 

by: greenhacksPosted on 2009-09-21 at 04:36:56ID: 25381832

Try either Dreamveawer or Microsoft Web Expressions.
I use Web Expressions. Both are paid.

 

by: HonorGodPosted on 2009-09-21 at 04:37:13ID: 25381837

 

by: greenhacksPosted on 2009-09-21 at 04:37:39ID: 25381840

Sorry missed your statement.
What exactly you mean by  "Find Next" feature??

 

by: ryancysPosted on 2009-09-21 at 04:38:12ID: 25381844

I would prefer Adobe Dreamweaver since it provides the both Design and Codes View for the developer, it got feature where when you select an element of page, the codes in Code View will be auto-selected, which makes things a lot easier (at least for me)

 

by: ryancysPosted on 2009-09-21 at 04:39:01ID: 25381850

btw, Adobe DW can do "Find Next".

 

by: mattibuttPosted on 2009-09-21 at 04:39:44ID: 25381852

do you want to pay  or you want a free tool

 

by: mattibuttPosted on 2009-09-21 at 04:44:29ID: 25381875

this is the link for free html tools they dont cost anything
http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=html+editor

 

by: williampeckPosted on 2009-09-21 at 05:05:20ID: 25381998

mattibutt, I'm willing to pay, don't really want a free tool, I want to grow the sophistication significantly

ryancys, ok, Dreamweaver sounds good, I believe that's high-end and high-end pricing too, so will evaluate. Thanks

greenhacks - CoffeeCup cannot do "Find Next" text search . . . it can do "Find" but not "Find Next" - this is a fatal flaw for me. thanks for the suggestions

HonorGod (I do) - thanks for the tip

 

by: greenhacksPosted on 2009-09-21 at 05:07:33ID: 25382014

I think before purchasing, try to evaluate both of them.
and then buy one.

 

by: williampeckPosted on 2009-09-21 at 07:37:39ID: 25383271

just heard back from CoffeCup - they have a "Search" function that searches forward and backward in a normal manner.

so I will try that out tonight.

they originally replied to me that "yes, there is no 'Find Next' feature, our engineers are aware of this"
- and definitely if you go "File, Edit, Find", the function finds the first occurrence of your search criteria, but that's it. There is no Find Next.

So I will check out the "Search" function tonight. (CoffeeCup was my first choice anyway, functionality / price-wise)

 

by: williampeckPosted on 2009-09-21 at 17:11:22ID: 25388818

CoffeeCup's Search function works, there's a nice search text box with next / prev arrows.

The Find Feature doesn't do "Find Next", but there is another menu option "Find Next", it's confusing but ok it's there.

 

by: HonorGodPosted on 2009-09-21 at 17:46:06ID: 25388938

Thanks for the assist and the points.

I'm glad to see that you got some good input, and that you had your main issue resolved.

Good luck & have a great day.

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