HTML/CSS editor for Mac OS X

Joey · 2006-05-30 10:49:24

Are there any free/open source HTML/CSS editors for Mac OS X? I couldn’t find any at Google. I know about Textmate, BBEdit, Stylemaster, etc., but I first would like to know if there are any free programs.

rui · 2006-05-30 11:29:56

JoeyNL wrote:

Are there any free/open source HTML/CSS editors for Mac OS X? I couldn’t find any at Google. I know about Textmate, BBEdit, Stylemaster, etc., but I first would like to know if there are any free programs.

Hi JoeyNL,

Two quick suggestions:

Free CSS Editor for Mac OS X > Simple CSS
Free HTML Editor for Mac OS X > Taco HTML Edit

Also take a look at skEdit and CSSEdit . They’re not free, but reasonable priced.

Extra Hint: For finding mac software use MacUpdate or VersionTracker

All the Best,
rui

ralph · 2006-05-30 11:56:59

CSSEdit rocks!

Joey · 2006-05-30 15:29:03

Both Thanks for your suggestions…looking at it now :)

davidm · 2006-06-12 15:59:06

Yeah thanks, I sure can use the tip, as a recent Mac switcher :P

sthmtc · 2006-06-13 00:52:03

have a look at TextMate

hakjoon · 2006-06-13 03:25:00

Texmate takes a little while to really grok the power, but it’s a powerhouse.

I also really like skEdit, worth every penny of the $25.

rloaderro · 2006-06-13 15:58:06

I purchased Textmate pre-Textpattern when I thought I might go the RoR direction. I never had time to pursue RoR and these days do a lot more PHP work which Textmate lacks a complete language set for. Eitherway. I still find myself booting up Adobe GoLive for 1 silly thing: CSS auto-complete (Textmate doesn’t have this feature, although you could sorta make one from what I understand). Anyway I like Textmate overall, and I probably use only about 10% of it’s capability. For me the nicest features are it’s integration with my FTP client (Fetch), the folder (project) view, and being call-able from the command-line (although I’m totally spoiled because of this as it only works locally: when I am shelled into another server I have to suffer through vi again…).

I use CSSEdit too, and it’s nice, light, although the auto-complete is not as intuitive or powerful as GoLive.

I was turned onto skEdit though, and it seems ideal if you do a lot of web work – HTML, CSS, Javascript (I don’t know about PHP) – but it features, for one thing, an awesome auto-complete. It appears to have the project view and a lot of other great features as well and only costs $25 (vs $40 for Textmate). I haven’t integrated it into my workflow yet (I’m trying to get the office to buy me a copy) but based on the trial I would recommend it for what you need…

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blumie607 · 2006-06-13 17:02:49

skEdit is awesome!

roberto_deoc · 2006-06-13 17:31:47

I use skEdit & CSSedit and really think they are both worth every $ that I paid!!!
On the free side of things, I also use a lot TextWrangler for single page edits here and there, and find it also very good:
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml

vifort · 2006-06-13 18:26:44

June !
Time to eat wild strawberries. Try Smultron (aka “wild strawberries” in swedish). And it’s free (open-source).

Features
Smultron is an open-source text editor written in Cocoa for Mac OS X with many of the features that you need. You can easily work with many documents and select one quickly in a list. Some of the other features are line numbers, support for syntax colouring for many different languages, support for text encodings, code snippets, a toolbar, a status bar, HTML preview, multi-document find and replace with regular expressions, possibility to show invisible characters, authenticated open and saves, command-line utility, .Mac synchronisation of preferences.

Simple and easy.

One day I’ll try SkEdit, seems to be the step further…

Last edited by vifort (2006-06-13 18:28:24)

hakjoon · 2006-06-13 19:32:55

Smultron is very nice as a general purpose text editor. It’s light and fast but it doesn’t offer any bells and whistles like tag insight and auto completion is I remember.

Still nothing is as good at that as topstyle pro on windows. I really wish Nick would make a Mac port.

marios · 2006-06-13 23:38:40

Textmate is my favorite editor for now, I try to unlock more of it’s hidden powers, but it requires a lot of time.
I think it’s worth it though, since I haven’t seen any other editor that is that much customizable, and then you want those little smarties though together.
About TopStype Pro for windows, yes, that’s really a pitty, TM can’t beat it yet here.
I think the best solution then here, is just network file sharing and using both apps, according to your tasks at hand.
(I’d need both for testing anyway)

regards, marios

Last edited by marios (2006-06-13 23:41:03)

davidm · 2006-06-14 13:55:11

Thanks a lot for the skEdit tip, nice !

Slightly different question : what do you use as file comparison tool ? I have tried FileMerge, but it doesn’t quite compare with PSPad for Win…
Any input there ?

hakjoon · 2006-06-14 14:51:56

I like KDiff3 . It’s pretty good for handling 3 way merges from SVN. Haven’t used PSPad though so I don’t know how it compares.

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