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What's new in HTMLPad 2025 18.0.0.264

Apr 24, 2024
  • It fixes heredoc syntax that was broken
  • Introduces more advanced logging mechanism, that would allow us to diagnose some problems better in the future

New in HTMLPad 2025 18.0.0.263 (Apr 4, 2024)

  • Experimental, but game-changing AI:
  • In-house we are using AI all the time, every day. We believe, it is a major breakthrough in the programming industry. So the new version has integration with AI chat, but there are some notes:
  • Technology is new, it will contain bugs
  • AI is not perfect, it may produce wrong answers sometimes
  • We rely on ChatGPT currently. Version 3.5 works well and is very fast. Version 4.0 works well, but sometimes is rather slow, becauseo of OpenAI API slowness
  • AI is a paid service, but we are including some free service credit out of our own pocket
  • When you buy a license, you will get a lot of free credits included (for hundreds of requests) with your license key

New in HTMLPad 2022 17.7.0.248 (Jul 23, 2023)

  • Fixed: Freeze in rare occasions when using Goto Anything.
  • Fixed: Rename feature for local files in Browse FTP.
  • Fixed: Multiple rare Access Violation bugs.
  • Fixed: A rare application freeze.
  • Fixed: Rare bug with saving file opened from FTP
  • Added: SFTP support for rsa-sha2-512 PK algorithm used by some newer servers

New in HTMLPad 2022 17.6.0.247 (Jan 17, 2023)

  • Added: CSS Code explorer can now show variable references
  • Added: added support to HTML parsers for cases where SCRIPT tag is in non-lowercase
  • Fixed: wrong horizontal ruler start point with text zoom
  • Fixed: tweaked Chrome GPU settings to improve stability on some computers
  • Fixed: out of memory errors during replace in files
  • Fixed: showing progress during replace in files
  • Fixed: various crashes

New in HTMLPad 2022 17.5.0.246 (Oct 25, 2022)

  • Added: When switching tabs, code explorer filter is maintained within same programming language
  • Added: "Compare with remote" in FTP/SFTP dialog
  • Fixed: SFTP bug where if file does not exist, download throws "Not connected" error
  • Fixed: Not parsing PHP classes that end in a specific way (# comment followed by } and not trailing newline)
  • Fixed: Not offering function parameters in autocomplete for any functions that contain internal {
  • Fixed: Various rare crashes and app getting "stuck" in rare occasions
  • Fixed: Drag to FTP/SFTP panel not working sometimes
  • Improved: Large file opening
  • Various small fixes

New in HTMLPad 2022 17.4.0.245 (Jul 27, 2022)

  • Fixed: Bug with folder changing back to previous in File Explorer pane using F4
  • Fixed: Rare application freeze bugs in specific circumstances
  • Fixed: Rare range check error in Color Picker
  • Fixed: Rare "Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window." error message
  • Fixed: Bug with external browser preview when there is space in the file path
  • Fixed: Rare crash during application shutdown

New in HTMLPad 2022 17.2.0.243 (Mar 4, 2022)

  • Fixed FTP problems with extension-less files
  • Fixed Reopen Last Closed Tab
  • Fixed Undo/Redo bug with document modified status

New in HTMLPad 2022 17.2.0.242 (Feb 21, 2022)

  • Updated CSS definitions, adding many new CSS properties
  • Updated CSS compatibility watch
  • Reevaluate feature for PHP debugger Watch feature
  • Updated CSS prefixizer
  • Adjustment of built-in preview ruler scale to match zoom level
  • Updated mobile device preview sizes
  • Improved CSS @import detection in HTML style blocks
  • Fixed problem with quote/brackets auto complete
  • Fixed problem with macros not recording auto-completed quotes
  • Fixed problem with files opened from FTP from side panel not appearing in MRU lists

New in HTMLPad 2022 17.1.0.241 (Jan 29, 2022)

  • Added popup menu on minimap for those failing to look in the Options menu to hide minimap
  • Improved minimap separation from code (shadow border)
  • Fixed range check error
  • Fixed zero length file causing SFTP error
  • Other minor fixes

New in HTMLPad 2022 17.0.0.239 (Jan 14, 2022)

  • Version 2022 introduces several major productivity-boosting features such as code minimap, built-in full-fledged FTP client with side-by-side local and remote panels and the long awaited inline color preview for CSS. Other updates include support for PHP 8 and many smaller refinements.
  • Code minimap:
  • Code minimap allows quick navigation based on visual representation of all code in the file.
  • Side-by-side FTP client/explorer:
  • The editor now comes with a full fledged FTP client that you can run in parallel with code editing. It offers some very helpful features:
  • Side-by-side local and remote panels
  • Tree view for directories
  • Synchronized browsing
  • Forward/Back navigation memory
  • All essential FTP file management features
  • Now remembers View mode and panel sizes
  • Inline CSS color preview:
  • Optional inline CSS color preview can greatly speed up work with web design and colors.
  • React and Vue.js framework support:
  • It is now easier to work with React and Vue.js code. This feature is also found in late 2020 releases, but it was initially not available for 2020.
  • PHP 8 support:
  • Improved auto complete
  • Named parameter support in hints
  • Number format support
  • Promoted property support in code explorer
  • New keywords fn and match
  • Performance improvements:
  • Faster application launch and exit when multiple tabs are kept open
  • Slightly improved code explorer performance
  • Visual improvements:
  • Customizable error line color
  • Updated all color schemes to work better with error lines, bookmark lines, hidden character display
  • Smoother menu drawing in dark themes on Windows 11
  • Preview improvement:
  • Updated built-in Chromium version to support latest HTML and CSS features
  • Removed legacy IE preview (can turn on with an option)
  • Usability improvements:
  • New actions Next Tab and Previous Tab that you can assign shortcuts to
  • Preview now remembers scroll position
  • Improved auto complete behavior with functions
  • Reopen Closed Tab feature that reopens last closed tab
  • Language, coding and other improvements:
  • Support for CSS variables
  • New framework - Bootstrap 5
  • Updated Google Fonts library
  • Improved JavaScript code parser
  • Updated PHP function and class definitions
  • Easy PHP installer package updated to 7.4

New in HTMLPad 2020 16.3.0.231 (Jan 12, 2021)

  • Added: Spanish translation (customer contribution, might need further testing)
  • Improved: Code Explorer refresh is now faster and prevents flicker if code not changed
  • Improved: Code parsing speed for large JS files is faster
  • Fix: Saved search menu now correctly updates itself after deleted search item
  • Fix: File explorer now correctly handles character case update for file rename
  • Fix: Slow file opening bug for some JS files is corrected
  • Fix: Find in Files popup window now correctly remembers search directory

New in HTMLPad 2020 16.2.0.229 (Aug 12, 2020)

  • New major feature: Vue.js support
  • New major feature: React support
  • Added "Reload from FTP" to configurable document actions (can add shortcut and place in menu / on toolbar)
  • Fixed: Auto complete issue in HTML code
  • Fixed: Code explorer active function update
  • Fixed: Issue with incorrect editor operation in split-screen mode during JS error
  • Fixed: VBScript syntax highlighting issue
  • Fixed: Scrollbar errors in dark UI mode
  • Fixed: Syntax highlighting issue with backslash character in CSS strings
  • Improved: CSE HTML Validator now treats JS file validation tasks properly as JS code

New in HTMLPad 2020 16.1.0.227 (May 22, 2020)

  • Plugin Issue/Bug: ExecuteCommand() returns ASCII data
  • PHP formatter adds extra line
  • W3 validator now works again
  • PHP debugger setting save bug fixed

New in HTMLPad 2020 16.1.0.226 (Apr 28, 2020)

  • Updated: CSS language definitions
  • Updated: Code Explorer behavior when showing many similar items
  • Fixed: HTML Tidy now works on some systems where previously it did not
  • Fixed: JavaScript parsing problems in various circumstances
  • Fixed: Some Code Explorer issues with icons
  • Fixed: Multiple bugs related to crash-reports sent in by users
  • Fixed: Problem with file rename in File Explorer sometimes
  • Fixed: Problems with Find/Replace panel size

New in HTMLPad 2020 16.0.0.225 (Dec 13, 2019)

  • Improved space in Find panel for localized versions (e.g. German)
  • Fixed: Some crashes according to reports
  • Fixed: Selection issues with word wrap + code collapse
  • Fixed: Some UI visual bugs in dark mode
  • Fixed: When List Variables is off, PHP function auto select goes not work
  • Improved: Russian localization

New in HTMLPad 2020 16.0.0.224 (Dec 4, 2019)

  • Fixed: Bug with adding FTP connections
  • Fixed: Bug with Chromium and executing JavaScript from plugins
  • Updated: New bundled emmet version to allow auto-expanding abbreviations with tab; some default short-cuts removed
  • Fixed: Visual glitches with Find panel and dark mode
  • Fixed: Bug with snippets loosing spaces at the end and beginning
  • Fixed: Bug with always on top tool windows
  • Fixed: Several crash reports

New in HTMLPad 2020 16.0.0.223 (Nov 29, 2019)

  • This is a service release:
  • Fixed: Code explorer not synchronizing PHP functions that are not in class
  • Fixed: FTP "Current Project's FTP" display visible only if Project activated
  • Fixed: Multiple crash reports (thanks for sending them in)
  • Fixed: Issue with bogus space in search results display
  • Fixed: Missing close X in Find in Files panel
  • Fixed: Floating tab popping up on top upon hint display
  • Fixed: German localization option layout in dockable find panels

New in HTMLPad 2020 16.0.0.222 (Nov 29, 2019)

  • This is a bug-fix release:
  • Fixed: blob_storage folder is no more generated in the working directory
  • Fixed: Some Dutch localization glitches
  • Fixed: CSS variables should no longer be in red
  • Fixed: Improved Code Explorer refresh behavior (still working on further improvements)

New in HTMLPad 2020 16.0.0.221 (Nov 24, 2019)

  • Build 221 addresses cosmetic glitches with incorrect version name in app title and incorrect German localization, nothing major.

New in HTMLPad 2020 16.0.0.220 (Nov 24, 2019)

  • Changes from last Beta:
  • adds redistributable php7 instead of php5
  • cosmetic fix to scrollbars in dark mode - no more white square
  • all editions are now available

New in HTMLPad 2018 15.5.0.207 (May 15, 2019)

  • This is a maintenance release with the following changes:
  • Fixes visual bug in open/save dialogs on some computers if dark UI used
  • Fixes bug where .chm help freezes during Search if dark UI used
  • Fixes detached tab losing focus after selecting item from autocomplete
  • Fixes a few visual bugs with high definition resolution
  • Fixes crash when editing unrecognized files without any syntax highlighter
  • Notifies about missing MSVC2012 runtimes if the bundled PHP is used
  • Fixes several crashes that might potentially occur in rare situations (thanks everyone who sent us their crash reports)

New in HTMLPad 2018 15.4.0.206 (Nov 20, 2018)

  • Fix: File explorer scrollbar bug
  • Fix: code collapse auto expands in some situations
  • Fix: if you only have 1 snippet with callword then this snippet gets auto-inserted on ctrl+J regardless of what's before cursor
  • Fix: crash when something unexpected dragged over snippet library
  • Fix: find in files lose previous search even if nothing selected and cursor isn't over any words
  • Fix: find in files lose file filter on subsequent searches when searching in Current Project
  • Fix: auto-complete lightning smart-button doesn't show at the correct line when word-wrap used
  • Fix: JavaScript auto-complete slowdown for some projects
  • Fix: various potential crashes
  • Improvement: slight performance improvements for PHP auto-complete
  • Plugins: changed TScriptableJSON.Parse to return boolean success

New in HTMLPad 2018 15.2.0.204 (Aug 30, 2018)

  • Updated SSH ciphers to be used for SFTP authentication
  • Added Ctrl + +, Ctrl + -, Ctrl + 0 shortcut support when Chrome preview active, unless these shortcuts are occupied
  • Pressing Esc while syntax error line is colored will hide the syntax error
  • Automatic JavaScript syntax checking changed to exclude script blocks containing PHP or ASP code
  • Fixed: JavaScript syntax checker did not detect script beginning correctly in some cases
  • Fixed: Could not change path to php.exe in built-in webserver settings
  • Fixed: Open from web did not work with HTTPS URLs
  • Fixed: Broken ECMAScript version selector in JavaScript checker dialog
  • Fixed: unquoted attribute auto-complete bug (may apply to some plugins)
  • Fixed: minor potential crashes (thank you everyone who are sending in their crash reports)

New in HTMLPad 2018 15.1.0.202 (May 15, 2018)

  • Fixed: Active parameter detection with hints & short form PHP arrays
  • Fixed: ctrl + c / ctrl + v sometimes not detected
  • Fixed: sql browser form stealing shortcuts even when inactive
  • Improved: Removed HTML comments from insert style block
  • Improved: php pathinfo added to auto complete
  • Improved: Bookmark preservation during Replace All
  • Improved: Undo selection behavior for some operations
  • Improved: Pre-filled fields during new snippet creation
  • Improved: PHP tag highlighting behavior in cases where there is no closing tag
  • Added: "About" button for plugins
  • Added: Plugins, Count and Keys methods added to JSON object
  • Added: Drag and drop capability in Snippets panel

New in HTMLPad 2018 15.0.0.199 (May 15, 2018)

  • Version 2018 is an admittedly long overdue major update that brings WeBuilder up to date with modern standards and technologies:
  • Built upon the successful previous version
  • Complete dark visual theme support
  • Upgraded user interface with high resolution monitor / high-DPI support
  • Updated HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP language support and framework definitions
  • Address many of the suggestions from our customers accumulated over the last 3 years
  • Large number of new and rewritten features
  • Heavily improved user interface:
  • Dark interface theme
  • High resolution monitor (high DPI) support
  • Customizable tab menu
  • Improved multi-monitor taskbar support
  • Improved text editor:
  • Better performance with unusually large files
  • Fixed some quirks with cursor position
  • Improved preview:
  • Updated built-in Chrome preview
  • Improved Web browser detection for preview
  • Improved Project management:
  • Faster auto complete in large projects
  • Experts can now customize TODO keyword pattern via todo.ini file
  • Improved FTP/SFTP/FTPS:
  • Updated SFTP support and compatibility with the latest servers
  • Connect to IPv6 addresses
  • FTP connections are saved when modified, not only when application closed
  • Various FTP fixes and stability improvements
  • Improved HTML and CSS support:
  • New, powerful and up to date HTML formatter
  • New, powerful and up to date CSS formatter
  • Updated CSS definitions and compatibility info
  • Updated HTML Tidy
  • Form field tag editors now support aditional input types (e.g. date, email, tel etc.)
  • Form field tag editors now support new HTML5 attributes (e.g. step, min, max, readonly etc.)
  • Anchor tag editor now uses id for bookmark links
  • Improved CSS syntax highlighting
  • Improved built-in CSS checker
  • Improved CSS, LESS, SASS auto complete
  • Updated CSS prefixizer
  • Inspector now shows only those prefixized properties that are still necessary
  • Collapsible HTML tags now can be configured by advanced users in collapsibletags.ini
  • Improved JavaScript support:
  • Improved JavaScript formatter
  • Built-in JavaScript minimizer
  • New built-in JSHint code checker and validator
  • ES6 syntax updates (e.g. let keyword, template literals, back-tick strings)
  • More responsive live syntax check
  • Improved PHP support:
  • New, powerful and up to date PHP formatter
  • New PHP keyword support in syntax highlighting
  • New PHP function and class support
  • Interfaces are now shown in Code Explorer
  • Better handling of anonymous PHP functions
  • Minor PHP auto complete improvements
  • More responsive live syntax check
  • Embedded, pre-installed PHP makes it easy to operate advanced preview, debug and syntax check features for beginners. This will not affect advanced users with custom PHP configurations, just make things easy for beginners.
  • Updated framework support:
  • Added Bootstrap 3 & 4 frameworks
  • Laravel framework update
  • Wordpress framework update
  • CakePHP framework update
  • CodeIgniter framework update
  • Symfony framework update
  • Zend framework update
  • Plugin improvements:
  • Plugins can easily execute PHP script and get output
  • Plugins now can hook into auto complete behavior and modify inserted content
  • Plugins now can execute auto complete on-demand based on user actions
  • New class TScriptableJSON for parsing and creating JSON
  • New TScriptableJsExecuter for executing JavaScript files via Chromium engine without involving browser GUI
  • TOpenDialog now supports multiple files via TOpenDialog.Files property
  • Misc minor adjustments and fixes:
  • Improved: Code collapse based on keywords
  • Improved: PHP line comment behavior
  • Improved: Search in multiple files now scrolls more content into view
  • Improved: Minimized chance of unwanted breakpoint being set accidentally during line select
  • Improved: Improved HTML tag closing, now supports Blade templates
  • Fixed: Bug with publish to FTP working incorrectly if a file is opened from FTP
  • Fixed: Bug with FTP connection created from Projects window not appearing on FTP tab
  • Fixed: FTP transfer progress bar in some occasions
  • Fixed: Multiple Inspector bugs with value editing and insertion
  • Fixed: Bug with CSS selectors appearing in upper case during syntax check
  • Fixed: Bug with META encoding not being inserted properly in some cases
  • Fixed: Bug with maximized app window appearing on top when opening files from Windows File Explorer
  • Various other fixes

New in HTMLPad 2016 14.4.0.188 (Oct 25, 2017)

  • Improved: SFTP connectivity with modern SFTP servers without backwards compatibility. The very latest standards are now used.
  • Fixed: SFTP issue with Keep Alive on some SFTP servers.

New in HTMLPad 2016 14.3.0.187 (Apr 20, 2017)

  • Fixed: Crash in Keyboard Shortcuts form
  • Fixed: Crash while disconnecting from FTP server if the connection fails catastrophically
  • Fixed: Scrolling to incorrect <img> after updating image with link via toolbar
  • Fixed: Draggable menus contained incorrect toolbars
  • Fixed: Crash when opening invalid document
  • Fixed: Crash when FTP trying to activate document that isn't open anymore
  • Improved: Color picker will support multiple monitors
  • Improved: Selecting image or script from inspector or auto-complete will add file:/// if the selected path is not relative to current document
  • Fixed: Prevent window.close() in Chromium preview to exit IDE
  • Improved: High definition support in FTP explorer window folder tree
  • Improved: High definition support in update notification window
  • Plugins: New function SaveStringToFile
  • Plugins: Trying to add image in incorrect size will throw and exception

New in HTMLPad 2016 14.2.0.186 (Apr 20, 2017)

  • Removed local webserver's ability to execute .exe files due to security concerns (reported by John Page). Let me know if and how you used this feature, together we will find a safer way to do it!
  • Improvement: File Explorer pane - FTP current path displayed when hovering over FTP directory tree (just like with FTP file list)
  • Improvement: CSS property mix-blend-mode enabled in CSS Actual.
  • Fix: Replace in Files with regular expressions, when Replace instead of Replace All used, the regular expressions didn't work correct (e.g. etc were ignored in Replacement text)
  • Fix: Crash with p::before{content:'}
  • Fix: Error on Ctrl + F4 when no documents open
  • Fix: Ignore File Explorer reported directory changes when it's not a real drive (caused by e.g. DLNA)
  • Fix: Esc not working in Find dialog if multiline field focused
  • Fix: Window list not updating if placed in toolbar
  • Fix: Problem when selecting and deleting multiple lines in huge files
  • Fix: CSS formatter could not handle CSS properties starting with "or"

New in HTMLPad 2016 14.1.0.185 (Jun 7, 2016)

  • Perform file listing in background for Goto Anything
  • Resizable Compare With dialog
  • Find/replace - when scope "All Open Documents" is used, don't stop at the last/first document regardless of whether "wrap at end" is checked
  • Fuzzy matching improvements for Goto Anything
  • Improvements with column widths when toggling Details View in File Explorer pane
  • Move form to main monitor when it's outside of all monitors on launch
  • Fix: issue with hint over editor in non-English languages
  • Fix: open related style file from code explorer when file open from FTP
  • Fix: crash when FTP server returns invalid list
  • Fix: safer FTP connections saving
  • Fix: projects list in menu not updated after Edit Current Project
  • Plugins: implemented TabByFileName that didn't work
  • Plugins: added shift state to keydown signal
  • Plugins: Go to code line from Messages pane, if the doubleclicked message is in specific format
  • Plugins: added DirectoryExists function
  • Plugins: functions for date/time locale reading
  • Plugins: SelectAll, PasteFromClipboard and CopyToClipboard methods added to TEdit and TMemo
  • Plugins: CustomSortStringList function added

New in HTMLPad 2016 14.0.0.185 (Jun 7, 2016)

  • Perform file listing in background for Goto Anything
  • Resizable Compare With dialog
  • Find/replace - when scope "All Open Documents" is used, don't stop at the last/first document regardless of whether "wrap at end" is checked
  • Fuzzy matching improvements for Goto Anything
  • Improvements with column widths when toggling Details View in File Explorer pane
  • Move form to main monitor when it's outside of all monitors on launch
  • Fix: issue with hint over editor in non-English languages
  • Fix: open related style file from code explorer when file open from FTP
  • Fix: crash when FTP server returns invalid list
  • Fix: safer FTP connections saving
  • Fix: projects list in menu not updated after Edit Current Project
  • Plugins: implemented TabByFileName that didn't work
  • Plugins: added shift state to keydown signal
  • Plugins: Go to code line from Messages pane, if the doubleclicked message is in specific format
  • Plugins: added DirectoryExists function
  • Plugins: functions for date/time locale reading
  • Plugins: SelectAll, PasteFromClipboard and CopyToClipboard methods added to TEdit and TMemo
  • Plugins: CustomSortStringList function added

New in HTMLPad 2016 14.0.0.184 (Apr 19, 2016)

  • Fix: Selection breaking on autocomplete
  • Fix: Hide all panels should not hide floating panels
  • Update: FTP safe mode improvements - don't error if the file doesn't exist
  • Update: Output panel return focus to editor on switching modes
  • Plugins fix: Show script messages after Find All
  • Plugins: Document.FtpFileName added
  • Update: Safeguard against out of memory on CSS item filter

New in HTMLPad 2016 14.0.0.183 (Apr 14, 2016)

  • Fix: crash when refreshing Code Explorer with no documents open
  • Returnded \ to PHP delimiters
  • Fix: got rid of deadlocks during Save All
  • Fix: with 3-rd party software button layers stealing focus after autocomplete
  • Update: Faster and better background library rescan on file save
  • New global action: Activate Folder of Current File that shortcut can be assigned to
  • Improvement: Reset File Explorer directory on startup if the directory does not exist
  • Added: Compiler directives for plugins
  • Added: PluginManager to plugins
  • Added: dialogs to plugins

New in HTMLPad 2016 14.0.0.182 (Apr 9, 2016)

  • Fixes problem in build 181 that causes crash on startup for some users.

New in HTMLPad 2016 14.0.0.181 (Apr 9, 2016)

  • Improved: code analysis when heredoc used in code
  • Improved: Use windows colors for AutoComplete popup
  • Fixed: IE missing scrollbars when rulers are on
  • Fixed: user-function name showing twice in parameter hint
  • Fixed: incorrect active parameter bolding when optional parameters (strings) used
  • Fixed: Memory leak fix, range check fix

New in HTMLPad 2015 13.3.0.167 (Sep 14, 2015)

  • Very minor update with a few minor fixes:
  • Bug - Find in files selects random filter from the list
  • Bug - Reload From FTP does not work when file in subfolder
  • Bug - Active parameter in function parameter hint with commas in strings

New in HTMLPad 2015 13.3.0.166 (Aug 10, 2015)

  • This is an emergency release, it is the same as 13.3.0.165, but with the nasty CSS crash bug fixed.

New in HTMLPad 2015 13.3.0.165 (Aug 5, 2015)

  • Added: Spanish language localization
  • Fixed: "Cannot activate invisible or disabled window" bug when using FTP
  • Fixed: CSS formatter and calc_function()
  • Fixed: CSS formatter and :nth-of-type pseudoselector
  • Fixed: PHP formatter stripping comments in
  • Fixed: PHP adding spaces to "empty" and other built in functions
  • Fixed: Bug with code preview sync in IE - click event disappearance
  • Fixed: Bug with showing // comments in code explorer for LESS
  • Fixed: Crash on specific invalid PHP code
  • Fixed: Crash on empty heredoc
  • Fixed: Unicode bug in snippets
  • Fixed: Bug with undo and other shortcuts not working in Find dialogs
  • Fixed: Missing semicolons in PHP switch snippet
  • Fixed: Select between brackets in specific cases
  • Fixed: W3C validator
  • Fixed: Incorrect asp parser assumption that backslash escapes quotes
  • Fixed: Problems with POST within internal web server
  • Fixed: Debugger hint display
  • Fixed: Bug when breakpoint on 1st line doesn't break

New in HTMLPad 2015 13.2.0.164 (Feb 9, 2015)

  • Fixed bug with "Export Settings" which caused the loss of settings
  • Fixed memory error with auto complete
  • Other minor adjustments

New in HTMLPad 2015 13.1.0.163 (Jan 21, 2015)

  • First bigger update to fix various initially discovered bugs and adds some minor improvements:
  • Added css display: flex and inline-flex
  • Renamed Wordpress to WordPress in library
  • Switching projects now switches open dialog paths
  • Fix: crash on drag unexisting file
  • Removed ! -> !important form autoreplace
  • Fix: FTP focus problem
  • Fix: FTP progressbar problem
  • Fix: Autocomplete $this-> should show also private members
  • Improved autocomplete for static methods returning objects
  • Lookup the correct file when finding declaration with include() or require()

New in HTMLPad 2015 13.0.0.161 (Dec 6, 2014)

  • Version 2015 is the best code editor we have ever made:
  • Built upon the most successful predecessor
  • Up to date with latest standards - HTML5, CSS3, Web 2.0 philosophy.
  • Address many of the best suggestions from our customers accumulated over the past 2 years.
  • Better HTML and CSS support:
  • Updated HTML5 language specification
  • Updated CSS syntax highlighting
  • Updated CSS definitions according to latest standards and drafts
  • Updated CSS compatibility info
  • Updated CSS compressor for better CSS3 support
  • Updated CSS3 gradient generator
  • Updated LESS and SASS syntax highlighting
  • Better JavaScript support:
  • Improved JavaScript language definitions
  • Improved JavaScript auto complete
  • Improved JavaScript syntax highlighting
  • Improved jQuery support
  • Updated jQuery framework
  • Better PHP support:
  • Updated PHP function list
  • phpDocumentor support
  • Updated PHP syntax highlighting – support for namespaces and new keywords as well as multiple bug-fixes
  • PHP variable highlighting in strings
  • Improved Find Declaration feature
  • TWIG highlighting
  • Heavily improved PHP auto complete:
  • Chained calls are now supported for unlimited depth
  • phpDocumentor info is now used to show result type in auto complete where available for user functions, methods and properties for auto-complete
  • Improved lookup for local variables
  • Constants now show up in PHP auto complete
  • Improved text editor:
  • Indent lines / guides
  • Quick color preview in the editor via mouse hover
  • 25 new syntax highlighting color schemes
  • Improved comment toggling
  • Cool DejaVu Sans Mono font is now bundled with the editor
  • Improved preview:
  • Updated built-in Chrome preview
  • Address bar and refresh button added to full-screen preview
  • Improved cursor/preview synchronization with Chrome support
  • Improved FTP/SFTP/FTPS:
  • Tree-view for FTP/SFTP browsing
  • Drag and drop files to/from FTP tree
  • Details view in FTP/SFTP sidebar
  • Upload whole directories to FTP
  • Recursive CHMOD for whole directories
  • Improved framework support:
  • Wordpress
  • CakePHP
  • Laravel
  • Zend Framework
  • Updated some existing frameworks
  • Open-source JavaScript-based framework scraper plugin for adding new frameworks
  • Improved tools:
  • Updated Language Browser - now you can browse all installed frameworks
  • Asset dialog windows (for image, script, CSS etc. insertion) now remember last directory on a per project basis
  • User libraries for auto complete are now updated more dynamically
  • Faster find and replace in files
  • Plugins:
  • Easy plugin installation from web-based repository
  • Proper Emmet (ZEN-Coding) plugin with all the awesome features
  • DevDocs.io plugin
  • Improved plugin engine
  • Many other fixes and smaller updates:
  • Improved: Accessibility and support for high DPI settings
  • Improved: Paste works when auto complete popup is open
  • Improved: Added SVG file format
  • Improved: Added JSON file format
  • Improved: Select Tag command now works better
  • Improved: Find All now always uses entire scope
  • Improved: Built-in web server now supports UTF-8
  • Improved: Localization in all languages
  • Improved: Multi-monitor support
  • Improved: SQL window
  • Improved: AltGr key behavior is now more consistent with other software
  • Fixed: Problem with Preview scrolling
  • Fixed: UTF-8 support in SQL browser
  • Fixed: Templates can now be saved easily in the template folder
  • Fixed: Copy with highlighting feature
  • Fixed: Open from web now supports Unicode
  • Fixed: Bug with mysqli auto complete
  • Fixed: Bugs with saving FTP and SQL settings in portable mode

New in HTMLPad 2014 12.3.0.151 (Jun 27, 2014)

  • Updated Chrome preview version
  • Fixed various errors and software exceptions
  • Ability to cancel snippets with input boxes
  • Fixed JS and PHP sample snippets
  • Fixed the disappearance of macros
  • Various SQL panel fixes
  • Improved CSS validator
  • Improved refresh + code/preview synch
  • Fixed visual TD tag matching
  • Updated JavaScript libraries
  • F5 now works in preview window
  • Fixed bug where program froze on encountering links that start with //
  • Improved HTML auto complete
  • Special Characters form fixes
  • Safe FTP upload mode now preserves permissions
  • Improved French localization
  • Improved regular expression search
  • Improved code explorer
  • Improved block comments insertion
  • JS checker now works in .JS files
  • Diff now works with unsaved and FTP files
  • Leading and trailing spaces are now preserved in snippets
  • Fixed memory leak in color picker
  • Fixed PHP formatter bugs
  • SQL browser updated, added basic actions - paste, copy, cut, select all, undo, redo
  • Updated inspector number editor to better support decimals
  • Now the last created project is auto selected
  • Strange characters with Alt + arrow
  • Fixed bug - when double-clicking on TODO category name
  • Fixed bug - adding @import statement to beginning of HTML when formatting font of selector in STYLE block
  • Multiple PHP debugger fixes
  • Improved PHP heredoc and nowdoc
  • Other minor fixes

New in HTMLPad 2014 12.2.0.150 (Aug 20, 2013)

  • Multiple SFTP connectivity fixes
  • Find windows now are a bit smarter in updating find string
  • Multi-line find mode now is triggered automatically
  • Multi-line find and replace fields now resize better
  • Fixed bug with controls not being disabled when all files are closed
  • Updated CSS syntax highlighters
  • Other minor fixes

New in HTMLPad 2014 12.1.0.149 (Apr 29, 2013)

  • Improved custom screen font size support
  • Improved Code Explorer filter usability
  • Fixed bug with CSS preview file dropdown
  • Fixed a few rare A/V bugs
  • Support for F5 and F2 short cut keys in File Explorer sidebar
  • Fixed some CSS syntax highlighting bugs
  • Fixed bug with opening multiple files
  • Other minor fixes

New in HTMLPad 2014 12.0.0.144 (Jan 25, 2013)

  • New interface
  • Major performance improvements
  • Major text editor improvements
  • Full HTML5 and CSS3 support
  • New color picker
  • Improved preview
  • Improved FTP/SFTP/FTPS support
  • Inline ToDo CSS box, shadow, gradient assistants
  • Over 100 other new features added

New in HTMLPad 11.3.0.132 (Jun 18, 2012)

  • Improved: Wording change for option - Automatic PHP function list drop down
  • Added: SQL Browser now allows multiple open windows
  • Added: SQL Browser windows ar non modal - you can code and do SQL at the same time
  • Updated: PHP highlighter now supports latest reserved words of PHP 5.3 and 5.4
  • Updated: Default HTML spec now is HTML 5, for CSS it is CSS 3 (only for new installations)
  • Some minor adjustments

New in HTMLPad 11.2.2.131 (Feb 15, 2012)

  • Bug: SFTP Overwrite All not working properly (skips any files after the first one)
  • Bug: Replace in Files ignores case sensitivity
  • Bug: File Explorer not refreshing after folder is edited

New in HTMLPad 11.2.0.130 (Feb 3, 2012)

  • Very important bug with application crashing when clicking on a document tab is now fixed. This bug happened only if preview was used during switching the documents due to Internet Explorer preview crashing for unknown reason. A workaround was found.

New in HTMLPad 11.2.0.129 (Dec 8, 2011)

  • Fixed: Bug with SFTP stuck in Busy... state (finally somebody told us that this was SFTP and not FTP problem)
  • Fixed: Display overwrite prompt does not stick
  • Fixed: Use Save Overwrite doesn't get saved
  • Fixed: Various adjustments in German translation
  • Added: Experimental Hungarian translation
  • Added: On double-click HTML color's # is included making it easy to copy color (works also in CSS)
  • Improved: Image dialog is now easier to use and border=0 property will stick (should have done this long time ago)
  • Improved: Image dialog now supports PNG image preview (should have done this long time ago)

New in HTMLPad 11.1.0.129 (Dec 7, 2011)

  • Fixed: Bug with SFTP stuck in Busy... state
  • Fixed: Display overwrite prompt does not stick
  • Fixed: Use Save Overwrite doesn't get saved
  • Fixed: Various adjustments in German translation
  • Added: Experimental Hungarian translation
  • Added: On double-click HTML color's # is included making it easy to copy color (works also in CSS)
  • Improved: Image dialog is now easier to use and border=0 property will stick
  • Improved: Image dialog now supports PNG image preview

New in HTMLPad 11.1.0.128 (Sep 22, 2011)

  • Fixed: "Disable Angle Bracket Auto Complete" renamed to "Disable Round Bracket Auto Complete". + Fixed: "Code Explorer links are not showing some links."
  • Fixed: Smarty problem - "After open an *.tpl file the smarty syntax highlight works as it should but the editor disables all html functions and inspector."
  • Fixed: "Highlighting paired parentheses and brackets worked in v10 but does not seem to work in v11"
  • Fixed (possibly): Access violation error on preview sync
  • Fixed: Access violation error when full-screen peview and command "Navigate Back" or "Navigate Forward" used
  • Fixed: "Enter on auto-complete "eats" next white-spaces"
  • Fixed: "Preview focus preventing auto-complete from working properly"
  • Fixed: "In the JS function list, a space is missing between the type and the function name"
  • Added: Feature that allows to turn off safe overwrite for FTP
  • Fixed (possibly): Explorer sizing bug on startup
  • Fixed (possibly): The file names move to the left but there is no scroll bar
  • Fixed: Bug with copying Tidy messages to clipboard altering editor text
  • Fixed: Custom file extensions can not be associated on first attempt
  • Fixed: Alt key bug in shortcut dialog
  • Fixed: Full screen preview does not show PHP

New in HTMLPad 11.0.1.127 (Sep 6, 2011)

  • Fixed: Now works on Windows 2000
  • Fixed: Bug with selecting custom browser in Preferences
  • Fixed: Bug with incorrect web address in About form
  • Fixed: Now maximum FTP file name length is 200 characters (previously 100)
  • Fixed: [Highly Requested] FTP Hangup upon Busy, now FTP disconnect is more brutal and responsive
  • Fixed: [Rare but critical] File contents may become corrupted upon FTP open/save error
  • Fixed: Reopen sometimes added extra line break to the file contents
  • Fixed: Click on filename in File Explorer now allows rename
  • Fixed: When in File Explorer there are many files, pressing first letter char of file name selects the file but does not do scrolling
  • Fixed: File Explorer sorting is not saved properly
  • Fixed: Rare A/V bug caused by File Explorer on startup
  • Added: Now you can do incremental search in File Explorer (find files by their first, second and so on characters)

New in HTMLPad 10.2.0.121 (Jun 25, 2010)

  • Improved: Much faster and more detailed find in files
  • Improved: Faster search
  • Updated: Tidy version update
  • Improved: Updated tidy config to support all new features
  • Fixed: Print selection does not work
  • Fixed: & in file name causes underlined letter in document tab's caption
  • Fixed: Bug with Open/Save dialog filters
  • Fixed: Minor text issues
  • Fixed: After closing Preferences, in language browser some languages are missing
  • Fixed: Find in files Find button disabled bug
  • Improved: ASP code highlighting - background color can be set for spaces
  • Fixed: CSS inspector "font" value is now parsed correctly
  • Fixed: CSS auto bracket complete no more adds two blank spaces at the end
  • Fixed: File Explorer Resize bug on Vista64
  • Improved: Localization now works better
  • Added: Russian translation

New in HTMLPad 10.0.0.111 RC2 (Sep 17, 2009)

  • Improved: Find in files result list works even if file has been changed (inaccuracy warning is shown)
  • Improved: Wrap at end setting is remembered in Find dialog
  • Improved: Replace All in selection now keeps selection
  • Added: PHP autocomplete now supports Class A extends Class B
  • Added: You can now hide preview tabs
  • Added: Find in files results are now counted
  • Added: Code Explorer now displays IDs and Classes
  • Added: Code Explorer now displays form elements
  • Added: Color coding for status bar messages
  • Fixed: PHP code explorer no longer misbehaves if string contains more than 2 \s
  • Added: Filter in code explorer
  • Fixed: Find bug: When a project is changed, look in should change utomatically
  • Added: If no text selected in Find box, use the last (not empty)
  • Added: Now you can copy search and validation results
  • Fixed: Some bugs on Vista
  • Added: Preferences window remembers last opened page
  • Fixed: When using "Find All" with "Wrap at end" and "Entire Scope" checked and cursor is in the middle of the document, entries are found twice
  • Added: [BIG] CSS definitions for CSS3, iPhone2, IE8, FF3, Saf3, new icons
  • Bug: HTML code explorer wrongly displays categorize by type and list local variables
  • Bug: Duplicate line Ctrl+D does not work for the last line if after it no empty lines
  • Improve: Auto replace now inserts space
  • Added: Document/Project colors
  • Added: Flexible localization system - users can add languages
  • Added: Support for IE8 preview
  • Fixed: FTP browser does not accept Enter for folders
  • Fixed: Snippet auto indent does not respect tabs
  • Fixed: CSS auto indent does not respect tabs
  • Added: PHP static members are now marked in code exporer
  • Added: FTP upload overwrite prompt now shows file dates
  • Added: [BIG] Project publishing - easily upload only changed files
  • Improved: Restore window if it is activated and currently minimized
  • Added: [BIG] Docummentation for customizing syntax highlighters
  • Added: Several cusrom syntax highlighters included (highlight php variables in strings, highlight special tags)
  • Improved: MDI document window behavior (to some extent)
  • Improved: Some improved, more understandable icons

New in HTMLPad 9.5.2.106 (May 2, 2009)

  • Fixed: Remember last File Explorer folder
  • Updated: Help windows should not always be on top
  • Fixed: Bug with search box
  • Fixed: FTP now works with servers responding incorrectly to some requests
  • Improved: Support "scroll one page" wheel setting
  • Improved: Disallow ability to open two copies of a file from FTP *sidebar*
  • Improved: Check file for changes right before it is saved to disk
  • Other minor fixes

New in HTMLPad 9.5.1.105 (Apr 8, 2009)

  • A very minor update. Basically the feature allowing to turn off multi-item-clipboard was fixed in Rapid PHP, HTMLPad and Rapid CSS. Also minor tweaks were done to how the search works. Additionally we did some minor polishing.

New in HTMLPad 9.5.0.104 (Mar 8, 2009)

  • Improved JavaScript support
  • Improved text editor
  • Various fixes

New in HTMLPad 9.4.1.103 (Jan 22, 2009)

  • This is an emergency update for those who had serious clipboard problems and for Windows Vista x64 users. Others can skip this update.

New in HTMLPad 9.4.0.102 (Jan 7, 2009)

  • Improved FTP support
  • Improved text editor

New in HTMLPad 8.0.0.74 (May 12, 2007)

  • New Taskbar/Tabs with drag and drop support
  • Improved File Explorer
  • CSE Validator support
  • Improved CSS editing features
  • Clickable CSS preview with RXay
  • Easily switch encoding between ANSI and UTF-8
  • Replace now supports regular expressions
  • Over 100 other imporvements

New in HTMLPad 7.4 (Dec 2, 2006)

  • Improved File Explorer

New in HTMLPad 2006 Pro 7.3 (Sep 19, 2006)

  • Improved text editor
  • Improved Find and Replace
  • Improved color selector