Everyone, who wants to develop websites, needs an HTML editor or rather a development environment. There are, of course, several fee-based editors of high quality, but if you do not need your development environment every day, a free application will be perfectly fine. That an editor is free of charge does not mean that it is of low quality. One of the best development environments is available as permanently free evaluation version. You can “test” it as long as you want.

TextEdit offers powerful rich text formatting options. But sometimes it’s best to use TextEdit Plain Text Mode, which eliminates all formatting and, you guessed it, produces only plain text. TextEdit is a freeware text editor for Windows that provides not only a tabbed interface, but also support for the most popular programming languages out there.

However, if the editor suits you, you should be fair and purchase it. Below, we present you a selection of the best free HTML editors for macOS. CotEditor 2.o CotEditor is a relatively new and fresh development for everyone who doesn’t need his editor on a daily basis and simply wants a good editor with syntax highlighting. You can consider CotEditor as Notepad++ for OS X. It provides, besides a viable code completion, a very good search-and-replace function, a split view to partition the editor window in several fields, good syntax highlighting for 40 programming languages and comes with eight themes.

For a simple editor, you can customize the application more than you’d have expected; the is certainly worth trying out. This is one of the eight themes: Brackets Brackets is a modern open source editor with several extremely interesting features. For example, when used in combination with Adobe Creative Cloud Extract (=preview) it can read design data such as colors, types, histories etc. Directly from a PSD file and transform it into minimalistic, correct CSS code. Likewise, you can extract layers as images, use the information from the PSD as variables in a preprocessor, and easily determine distances and proportions of elements – all without exiting the editor. Please remember: Using Adobe Creative Cloud requires a paid subscription.

Another significant advantage of Brackets are the expansions, which you can use to customize the editor to your needs. Every three or four weeks another extension becomes available. The full support of preprocessors should also be mentioned. With Brackets, you can use “quick edit” and “live preview” when working with LESS as well as SCSS files, which makes the working process much easier. Together with the right extensions and Adobe Creative Cloud (Extract), this editor can even cover the needs of a professional. A short video introduction to Brackets. Sublime Text 2 is the minimalistic favorite of developers, because it can easily be completely customized to one’s own needs by using a JSON file.

Moreover, there are several extensions to “stretch” the editor with. For example, a must-have extension is, which you can use to easily find and install extensions and plug-ins from right within the editor. To describe the full extent of features of Sublime Text 2 is rather difficult, as it can do, through its plug-ins and extensions, basically anything you need it to do. As an example for a useful plug-in, look at the (for finding connected brackets and tags), (previously Zen Coding – for extremely fast coding) and (draws attention to mistakes in the source code). A high-quality auto-completion feature is already built into Sublime Text 2. There are also several themes to choose from. A lot more can be installed.

All standard functions such as search and replace are, of course, included. How to make techno music. The editor is available as an evaluation version without enforced time limit, so that you may use it for free permanently.

Nonetheless, you should purchase the license for fairness sake if you are certain that you will keep the editor on permanent rotation. Google Web Designer Yes, Google also provides tools for web designers. However, Google Web Designer works more like Adobe Dreamweaver. It is not a pure HTML editor, but a combined WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) and text editor. You can work with both interfaces, the graphical interface, and the code-view. Google Web Designer is supposed to generate correct HTML5 and CSS3 code from the graphical interface.