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Posted by Gabriel E
Gabriel E
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Does anyone have a good idea for a text editor?

So, I basically need a good, not hard to understand, text editor for my practice in HTML. Something where I can easily load my code to a web browser. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

~ Gabriel

7 Answers

A X
A X
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A X
A X
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Notepad ++ comes to mind immediately. I'm sure other people will have better ideas...

A X
A X
12,842 Points

Also, just in case others are wondering, although you can use programs like notepad (without the ++) and even Microsoft Word to write code, it's very ill advised to do so since Word isn't designed for web programming and has formatting & the original notepad offers no features to help you when programming.

Justin Coen
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Justin Coen
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I've tried a few and personally sublime-text 3 is by far my favorite.

Hreiðar Ingi Hallgrímsson
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Hreiðar Ingi Hallgrímsson
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Hreiðar Ingi Hallgrímsson
Hreiðar Ingi Hallgrímsson
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Atom.io and TextWrangler are my go-to editors :)

Jack Wherry
Jack Wherry
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Jack Wherry
Jack Wherry
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For web design, I would recommend Brackets. The feature that you would probably like would be Live Preview, which auto-reloads the page as you type, so you don't have to reload it every time you make a change.

It also includes a file tree and has great extension support, for things like Git or W3C validation.

Happy coding!

Gabriel E
Gabriel E
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Gabriel E
Gabriel E
8,916 Points

Thank you so much everyone! I will check out each suggestion. :-D

Gabriel E
Gabriel E
8,916 Points
Gabriel E
Gabriel E
8,916 Points

For some reason I can't mark best answer.

Jason Anders
Jason Anders
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Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,863 Points

When the topic is "General Discussion," upvoting and Best Answer is disabled.

I've used Sublime Text for quite awhile now, but Atom is really starting to grow on me (and it's free and very customizable).

:dizzy:

Mark Truitt
Mark Truitt
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Mark Truitt
Mark Truitt
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It also depends on what you are doing or planning to do. Sublime text 2 or 3, ATOM, brackets, Netbeans, and PHPStorm (last 2 are more programminh based but i have used all of the above.)