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Cliff Tam
Cliff Tam
2,948 Points

Looking for a text editor that's good for css and html coding

hi everyone,

I've been looking for a good text editor for HTML and CSS coding. Just like to know what do you use.

I am looking a text editor with the following features:

  • can clean up dirty or bunched up codes - expand them and give them tab
  • recognize colors in HTML and CSS and has an easy color selector
  • can predict and recognize CSS and HTML values

I use both mac and windows 7 for coding. Currently I am using Textwrangler (mac) and Notepadd++ (pc). Both have some plus and minus (textwrangler doesn't give suggestion and notepad++ doesn't auto format). I tried Dreamweaver (CS2 and CC 2015) but i feel they more clunky than my liking.

Are there good text editors that can offer these features easily?

Thansk, Cliff

3 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

I personally use and prefer Sublime Text 2. Sublime is capable of syntax colors for multiple languages, and I just find it very user friendly and customizable. But, I have heard that Atom is very nice as well.

:)

jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points

sublimetext and emmet. code by microsoft is good mention. atom is also very good. Whatever makes your life easier. IDE for big projects though.