HTML 5 Introduction

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Install an HTML Text Editor

Learning Objectives

  • Identify desirable features in an HTML editor.
  • Compare two or more HTML editors.
  • Report your comparison to other participants of this class
  • Select an HTML editor for your personal use
  • Summarize the reason(s) that led you to choose your specific editor
  • Use your editor to produce a simple HTML page

Task Materials

For this course we need an HTML editing tool. There are many to choose from. We do not need many advanced features for this basic course so pick a simple text editor with syntax highlighting.

Online HTML editors

There are several HTML editors that you can use in your web browser:

  • Mozilla Thimble - Recommended to use on this course. Provides direct visual feedback, syntax highlighting, and easy publishing.
  • HTML Pad (Mozilla online HTML editor)
  • JS Fiddle (JavaScript, CSS, and HTML editor online)

Free/Open Source Text Editors

The following text editors have syntax highlighting and are Free/Open Source tools:

  • Bluefish (GNU/Linux, Mac OSX, Microsoft Windows)
  • Geany (GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows)
  • gEdit (GNU/Linux, Mac OSX, Microsoft Windows)
  • jEdit (GNU/Linux, Mac OSX,Microsoft Windows)
  • Notepad++ (Microsoft Windows)

Advanced Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)

Task Discussion


  • Randi Miller   May 13, 2011, 4:57 p.m.

    I recommend jEdit to those people (like myself) that forget to save often. It has an autosave feature that has saved me quite a few times in the past.

  • Nada   May 13, 2011, 3:13 p.m.

    I already have notepad++  editor.

  • djzero   May 13, 2011, 2:56 p.m.

    i'm using bb edit

  • Stellan   May 13, 2011, 8:51 a.m.

    …and I have Taco HTML and the excellent little Swedish editor Smultron installed on my iMac :)

  • Germán Prieto   May 13, 2011, 8:49 a.m.

    I have jedit installed under Xubuntu. Ready to go!

    Regards =D

  • skar   May 12, 2011, 11:49 p.m.

    I installed Notepad++ on my Winodws computer.

  • Josh   May 25, 2011, 3:59 p.m.
    In Reply To:   skar   May 12, 2011, 11:49 p.m.

    I also have Notepad ++ which is much friendlier than Eclipse.