What is the best editor for HTML, CSS etc?

Question

in Windows I'm using Komodo & Notepad++ for coding HTML, CSS etc. In Ubuntu, what's the best editor I can use? Thanks :)

Solution 1

My personal favorite for web programming would have to be Brackets.

It has support and syntax highlighting for many, many languages, and has plenty of awesome features.

It has an awesome interface that's really easy to use, along with a whole raft of features, like over 100 extensions accessible right from within a built-in Extension Manager, live-preview which allows you to see the changes you make right away – no reloading the page any more, quick-edit that allows you to edit the CSS for the current tag without changing files, tag completion, and a bunch more.

Granted, you have to have Chrome (or Chromium, that works too) to use the Live Preview, but that is probably one of the best features. Basically, you can tweak a bit of code within the page's code and you can see that change as soon as you complete the code line.

Here’s a video, albeit a bit outdated, that provides a basic introduction to Brackets and its features.

You can add a PPA to install Brackets get automatic updates for it via:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/brackets
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install brackets

Solution 2

Bluefish is great - it supports HTML, CSS, JS and much more besides. Also supports tag completion , multi-threading & documenting etc. You can install it from the repos using:

sudo apt-get install bluefish

Screenshot:

Note you can install Notepad++ under Wine, and a script for PlayOnLinux is also available

Solution 3

Gedit is a pretty nice tool, its like the notepad of Linux. There are more specialized programs out there but sometimes the simplest work the best :)

Comments

[MeymiGrøu Mey]

Well done! I installed it and it seems to work great! Thank you! I also like Sublime Text 3 :)

[MeymiGrøu Mey]

Thank you for your answer, have you tried Sublime Text 3 or Brackets? If not, you should check them out :)

[RPiAwesomeness]

@MeymiGrøuMey That's also another very god one. When I wrote this I actually hadn't discovered Sublime Text yet, but have since. Still, I prefer Brackets for web programming since that's its main focus. ST3 is very good though, and it's what I use for all my application programming.

[sxc731]

Good thing about Bluefish, it supports gvfs making it possible to easily edit files on remote servers (I use sftp://user@server but other schemes are supported)

[laksys]

Exactly correct.

[Tcll]

I'm turned off by the fact this is just another extendable text editor, but the more screenshots I see of this, the more comparable it looks to a fully featured IDE... This looks extremely useful! :D

[Tcll]

except for the fact it seems to freeze on large generated HTML documents.

[Wilf]

@Tcll - which version are you using?

[Tcll]

should be the latest I think... I'm using this on Xubuntu 14.04... * checks * nope... 2.2.5 :O