The Best CSS Editor

[jauhari]

Hi All, I still try to find the best CSS Editor for my default CSS Editor.
The best that I mean in here is Easy to Use, Auto Code Competition and of course the output is standard CSS.

The editor is Both on Linux, Windows and Mac or if every OS have different program just let's me know.

Please Give me some info on it

[tech_support]

Dreamweaver.

[Twey]

Vim. 

[naiani]

I use Win and Linux. I've been looking for the same answer these last few days, and, so far, have come to the conclusion that there's no REALLY good CSS editor, at least not a free one.

For Windows, the best one I've ever used is probably TopStyle Pro, even though it's a shareware (I'm totally not willing to pay for any kind of software). The features are really useful, it's easy to use and you can code not only CSS, but HTML/XHTML as well. The Lite version is poorer in features, but it's free, so you might want to give it a try. I also like Dreamweaver because of the code completion and syntax highlighting. But I think using Dreamweaver to use only the Code part (which is the most sensible thing to do when using it) is like killing a fly with a bazooka (and what a HUGE bazooka). I've heard of E-TextEditor (Mac TextMate version for Win) and EditPlus, but haven't tested them yet.

For Linux, it gets harder to find good softwares. I've used Vim, Anjuta (not really for CSS, but does the syntax highlighting), Eclipse, Bluefish, Nvu, and couldn't find anything. I personally don't think Vim is a good alternative, because it fails BADLY on the "easy to use" part. Vim is for people who want to spend time learning the freaking secret commands to erase multiple lines or whatever. Not practical at all until you learn everything. I haven't learned everything and don't use it to code, unless it's a really small piece of code. Nvu is kind of good (but not really) and, for me, it's a REALLY POOR Dreamweaver-wannabe. No surprise that it's discontinued now. I'm going to try Bluefish again, as it's been a long time since I used it. I've just re-installed it on my laptop and tonight I'll be able to say if this 1.0 version is any good.

Hope it helps.

[Sliight]

I paid $65 for this http://www.westciv.com/style_master/house/index.html

You can use it for free for 30 days I believe as well...

To me it's outstanding because I'd never used CSS before at all. The tutorial taught me how to use CSS, and the program. It codes everything for you with a nice preview window in it so you can see what is happening while you do it.

Check out the demo at least... then you can decide if you wanna buy it.

[Twey]

Vim is for people who want to spend time learning the freaking secret commands to erase multiple lines or whatever. Not practical at all until you learn everything.... which takes about half an hour with the tutorial file bundled with the program.

People depend far too much on auto-completion nowadays. Kate (http://kate.kde.org/) also provides syntax highlighting, and for properties too, so you can see if you've remembered the property name correctly. Rather than auto-completion, how about just using a reference (W3Schools is good for this)?

[Spiritvn]

... i just use edit plus editor :D

[techno_race]

TopStyle. And if that doesn't cut it, Dreamweaver. Take a look at this Dreamweaver-generated code:


.style1 {
color: red;
}
.style2 {
size: 78pt;
}
.style3 {
size: 24pt;
text-decoration: overline;
color: rgb(255,255,0);
font-face: monospace;
}

[boxxertrumps]

I use vi for quick text editing if i'm already in the console, and kate is the best ascii text editor i have at my disposal.

bbnote is my favorite for windows.

[eukhost.com]

TopStyle and CSS Vista are pretty good as well.