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The following is a list of HTML editors with articles in Wikipedia.

Text editors

Plain text editors may be used to produce webpages.

The following are some commonly used text editors:

• Emacs
  gedit
  Kate
  Notepad
  TextEdit
  UltraEdit
  vi

Text-based HTML editors

EditPlus Text Editor

TopStyle CSS Editor

Text-based HTML editors evolved from basic text editors, but include additional tools specifically geared toward handling code.

• Alleycode HTML Editor
  Aptana
  Arachnophilia
  BBEdit
  Bluefish
  CoffeeCup HTML Editor
  EditPlus
  Evrsoft 1st Page
  HTML-Kit
  Macromedia HomeSite
  NoteTab
  PSPad
  Quanta Plus
  SCREEM
  Siteaid
  skEdit
  Taco HTML Edit
  TextMate
  TopStyle
  Notepad++

Word processors

While word processors are not ostensibly HTML editors, many of the major products are capable of exporting document layouts in HTML format. This offers the ease of use of a word processor, similar to a WYSIWYG product (see below), but has some of the same end product limitations.

• AbiWord
  Apple Pages (part of the iWork suite)
  AppleWorks
  Microsoft Word
  OpenOffice.org Writer
  WordPerfect

WYSIWYG editors

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) code generators offer speed and ease of use.

Many of these editors do not require any knowledge of the programming languages generated by the software.

Pages are often produced in a proprietary format and then exported as finished code; the exported pages cannot usually be imported for further editing, but new pages can be exported from the original proprietary file after it has been edited.

Exported files tend to be larger than hand-coded pages (those produced with a text-based HTML editor or a plain text editor).

WYSIWYG generators tend to be better than word processors at producing highly graphical and interactive pages.

Expression Web

• Adobe Contribute "Dreamweaver Lite"
  Adobe Dreamweaver - Previously Macromedia Dreamweaver.
  Adobe GoLive
  Amaya
  Blockstar
  Bluevoda
  HotDog
  iWeb
  KompoZer
  Media Lab SiteGrinder
  Microsoft Expression Web
  Microsoft SharePoint Designer
  Microsoft Visual Studio / ASP.NET Web Matrix
  Microsoft Visual Web Developer
  NetObjects Fusion
  Nvu
  Quanta Plus
  RapidWeaver
  Sandvox
  SeaMonkey Composer
  Softpress Freeway
  WorldWideWeb

Editors that have been discontinued, but may be in common use

• AOLpress - Now Discontinued.
• Adobe PageMill - Now Discontinued. Replaced by Adobe GoLive.
• Microsoft FrontPage - Now Discontinued. Replaced by Microsoft Expression Web Designer
• Mozilla Composer -No longer being updated or supported. Replaced by Seamonkey Composer
• Netscape Composer -No longer being updated or supported. Replaced by Seamonkey Composer

See also

• HTML editors

External links

• List of "Through the Web" WYSIWYG Web Editors
• WYSIWYG vs. Hand Coding, the Great Debate
• W3C List Of HTML Tools (Outdated but kept for historical purpose)

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