HTML Editor

Behind every webpage you visit lies a solid source code written in a specific programming language, most likely being HTML. Writing code can be easily done in a plain text editor, but specialized applications like HTML Editor provide a bit more variety in functions and a more comfortable writing experience.

It takes little time to deploy it on your computer, but to properly ensure functionality you need to make sure that .NET Framework is installed on your PC as well. One instance is enough to provide multiple work environments thanks to tab support. However, a new tab needs to be created when opening a new document, otherwise the current one is replaced.

Most of the space represents the edit area, with the upper toolbar providing quick access to most edit options, but the status bar only shows active tabs, and no additional information such as number of words, or characters. Line numbering isn’t implemented either, which might make it a little difficult to keep track of code.

As far as editing options are concerned, these are limited to basic copy, cut, paste, and select operations, as well as to insert time and date. Unfortunately, there are no options to customize the style, type, attributes, size, or color of the font. It would have also been useful to see built-in syntax highlighting to easily differentiate functions from values and other strings.

File support covers HTM, HTML, as well as plain TXT, and this goes for both importing and exporting content. However, there is the possibility to link an external editor for more variety in functions. What’s more, you can easily grab the HTML code of existing pages through a simple operation without having to run your web browser.

Before saving your project, it’s possible to make sure code is in good shape through the debugger. This is greatly extended by the built-in run tool for external commands as well.

All things considered, we can state that HTML Editor is somewhere in the middle if you’re to rely on ease of use and practicality. Sure enough you can work on multiple projects at a time, but without syntax highlighting and better writing support, there’s little difference between Windows default tools and what this application brings.