This is an editor aimed solely at Mac users, with no version available for Windows or Linux. With a design that resembles that of Notepad more than a HTML editor, this has a simple and easy to use interface for coders that want to get on with coding without panels of buttons either side of the editing screen.
When it comes to web design, every designer tends to have their own favorite coding application. Luckily for Mac users, there are plenty of options to choose from, this roundup of HTML and CSS editors pulls together the most popular editing apps with a brief overview of their features.
These HTML and CSS editing apps for Mac designers have excellent features such as browser preview, FTP, SVN, terminal, writing and debugging CSS, file browsing, shortcuts to power up your workflow, auto-completion features, live validation, highlighting, project support, and more! Plus, most of these editing apps for Mac are also very lightweight, which means your projects will load fast.
We have gathered here some top HTML and CSS editing apps for Mac designers. These super lightweight coding applications have all the required features needed for coding awesome web projects and offer support for HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP. Check out all of their powerful features, along with some screenshots, to see how they look like.
Coda
Coda is the swiss army knife of CSS editing apps, it combines code editing features with FTP, SVN, Terminal and a browser preview to produce a do-it-all app. Coda is one of the most popular choices for Mac based Web Designers and is also my personal preference. There are some new features in the updated version of Coda, such as a touch bar you can use to switch instantly between editor and preview, better speed for syntax highlighting and symbol parsing is 10 times faster, as well as some editor improvements, such as vertical indentation guides, customizable column guide, color-coded traditional or visual tabs. Even more, it now comes with local indexing. plugin prefs, CSS overriding and even panic sync, so you can sync your sites, passwords, and private keys to all of your Macs and more.
Best Html Editors For MacScreenshotsCSSEdit
CSSEdit is an editing app with a primary focus on Cascading Stylesheets. The application includes some super handy features for writing and debugging your CSS such as Live Preview and the X-Ray Inspector but being a lightweight application designed specifically for CSS edits, you will need a collection of supporting apps in your toolbox. It helps you clean up your markup with the integrated HTML Tidy support, it has support for Subversion source control management, lets you search one or many files quickly, write scripts in the language of your choice, and more.
ScreenshotsTextMate
TextMate is a comprehensive code editor with a clean and minimal interface. It includes all the common features you would expect from an editing app and has some unique shortcuts that can really speed up the workflow for power users. It creates a bridge between UNIX underpinnings and GUI so both expert scripters and novice users can benefit from it.
ScreenshotsBBEdit
If you find yourself working with large quantities of files, BBEdit might be the application for you. It includes a range of powerful file browsing and search features that allow you to easily find and make edits to snippets of code buried deep in your website directories. You can use it to create and edit files directly on FTP and SFTP servers with built-in Open from FTP/SFTP.
ScreenshotsEspresso
Espresso is the sister app to CSSEdit, also created by the folks from MacRabbit. Where CSSEdit focused on CSS, Espresso has much wider support for general coding tasks and includes a range of handy navigation, snippet and auto-completion features, not to mention the built in preview engine and FTP support.
ScreenshotsDreamweaver
Dreamweaver includes some powerful and unique features for building websites, particularly its infamous ‘Design view’, but it can also be used purely for coding. If you do only use Dreamweaver for coding, the alternative apps mentioned in this post include pretty much the same important features, but also benefit from faster loading times due to their overall more lightweight build.
ScreenshotsHyperEdit
HyperEdit is a super lightweight coding application that combines the edit pane with a Safari powered preview window which allows for fast and easy page building. With the key features of code highlighting, snippets, live validation and support for HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP it includes everything you need in a small package.
ScreenshotsskEdit
skEdit is another lightweight coding app that can be easily extended with more language support. It makes sense to limit the application down to only the languages you use to avoid bloat. Otherwise the application includes project support, code completion, snippets and live preview, so it’s definitely a good competitor to the more wider known options.
ScreenshotsFirebug
Although it’s not a code editor at heart, it’s certainly a must-have application for Web Designers. Firebug allows you to tweak and edit your HTML and CSS on your live websites, which can then be ported back to your original files. This live editing cuts out the hassle of changing and re-uploading your files to really speed up your workflow.
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Is Komposer compatible with FrontPage. I have used frontpage with my windows PC for years to update our site. But now we all use macs and am not sure how to update our site. Do I have to start from scratch with a new mac app? Any suggestions? Thanks!
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I lied, Komposer is way better than NVU. NVU is too buggy. It crashed 3 times in the first 10 minutes.
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Nvu is amazing. Thank you.
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nice try but cant do simple insert html
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Which program are you having trouble inserting html?? Komposer or NVU. I want to try one. But, I do need to be able to paste in html (such as Flash etc.)
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Not sure about Komposer but NVU is super easy for making html and inserting flash stuffs as well.
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Yes, which program from the above listed doesn't make simple html pages?
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Wow.. Pretty good. I didnt know about this app. Great for mac users
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