Web Development Tools: HTMLPad 2011
Keywords: HTML editor, text editor, web development, coding, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, ASP, WML, XML, Perl
Summary: HTMLPad is an all-in-one (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript and and server side script editor for the Windows OS. It incorporates a large number of integrated tools which allow web developers to validate, reuse, navigate and format their code.
Main Features:
- Project management
- Multiple document interface
- FTP connectivity
- Preview mapping
- Fully customizable text editor
- Customizable keyboards shortcuts
- Built-in real time preview (Internet Explorer & Mozilla Firefox)
- Syntax highlighting: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, ASP, XML, Perl
- Code collapse
- Built-in CSS editor
- Built-in JavaScript editor
- Code Auto Complete: HTML tags, CSS
- Code Inspector for HTML tags and CSS
- CSS Selector creator and browser
- Various validation tools (HTML Tidy, CSE HTML editor...)
- Personal Code Library (collects frequently used pieces of code so you can reuse them later and save time) .
- Powerful search & replace function with regular expression support
- Spell Checking
- Color picker
- Multi-item Clipboard
- Macro recording
- Support for HTML5 and CSS3
- UTF-8 and UTF-16 Unicode support
Pros
- A very advanced and highly configurable text editor
- Lots of features for the money
- Clean and convenient interface
- Light, fast and stable
Cons
- Search & replace in files could be sturdier.
Publisher: Blumentals Software
OS: Supports Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Windows 7
Price: visit Blumentals software website. 30-use free trial version of the HTMLPad 2011, is also available.
Related products/ other OS: Notepad++ (Open Source, Free, Windows), Bluefish (Open Source, Free, Linux), BBEdit (Mac OS X)...
Comparison of text editors (wikipedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors (wikipedia)
Cross-platform text editors (wikipedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors#Cross-platform_text_editors
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