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Justin Molyneaux
13,329 PointsCan anyone suggest a free robust text editor for HTML/CSS?
I am looking for an editor that works similarly to Treehouse's workspace in how it automatically generates the end of your declarations and helps to cleanly format the code. Thank you!
6 Answers
Luke Glazebrook
13,564 PointsHi Justin!
I have tried and would recommend all of the following.
Sublime Text comes with an unlimited trial and only the occasional popup message.
Brackets is a great text editor but should only really be used for Web Development.
Atom is a open-source text editor created by the great folks over on Github!
All of these text editors are great and I would recommend you give them all a shot in order to see which one you like the most.
Justin Molyneaux
13,329 PointsThank you Luke. I also noticed that Sublime Text has options for writing in several other languages such as C#, C++, Rails, Javascript and more. It seems like this will come in handy later.
Luke Glazebrook
13,564 PointsIndeed it does! Atom also allows you to write in a wide variety of different languages.
hum4n01d
25,493 PointsTry Brackets ( brackets.io ). It’s a simple text editor made by Adobe that actually is free. (unlike sublime)
Matt Trask
10,027 Pointsatom.io
Its free, has git worked in, is very customizable and pretty rad.
Justin Molyneaux
13,329 PointsActually, I found the answer to my own question - http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/which-text-editor-should-i-use. It looks like Sublime Text is a good one to start out with. Thank you Nick!
Diego Osorio
5,198 Pointsyou can also try <a href="http://www.aptana.com/products/studio3/download.html" alt="">Aptana Studio</a> is base on Eclipse IDE... very robust and works with others languages as well...
Keith Hollis
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 12,352 PointsI would highly recommend Atom and Brackets, I have used both extensively and the stand out one is definitely Atom because of the git integration.
Marcus Klausen
17,425 PointsMarcus Klausen
17,425 PointsSublimeText is not free, however it does have an endless trial so you can use it forever until you are ready to respectfully pay the developer for his amazing work. It's multiplatform and you'll find it very extensive as you advance your coding skills.
There's also notepad++ which i think is windows only, (correct me if I'm wrong.)
Cheers!
EDIT: Didn't see your own comment haha, you've made a great choice.