Anyone know of a decent HTML editor?

Question

I have always used a text-editor for my web-projects, but as they get more complicated, some kind of help is pretty much necessary. I need something that will do the following:

• run on linux
• be as close to just a text-editor as possible (I use gedit for everything)
• keep track of object attributes, possibly standardizing the order (i.e. type, id, class, etc)
• keep track of object relations (i.e. which label goes with which input, etc)
• tell me if i do something like re-use an "id" by accident
• work with php

ideally, I'd like this program to be free, but that's probably not gonna happen... Anyone know of a good option?

UPDATE: Thank you all for your suggestions! There are a lot to choose from, and many of them look excellent. As for marking a solution as the accepted one, I'm rather at a loss of which one to pick... Thanks again for everyone's help :)

UPDATE2: Do any/all of these integrate nicely with jQuery?

Answer 1

Eclipse.

• Free
• Runs on linux, windows, mac
• Supports SCM

Alternately, Aptana is a build of Eclipse with a focus on web development.

The only place these tools don't meet your requirements is that they can be quite large.

Also, I don't know of anything, large or small, that warns you of attribute reuse andkeeps track of attributes and relations.

Answer 2

Check out Bluefish,

http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/screenshots.html

I haven't used it personally, but as far as HTML editors go for linux, it is the only one that comes to mind.

Answer 3

Scratch "be as close to just a text-editor as possible (I use gedit for everything)" and I'd recommend Aptana Studio in a heart-beat. Does pretty much most of the things you require and is built on top of Eclipse. Downside - a bit bulky and large JS files (in my case 2000+ loc) degrade performance.

http://www.aptana.com/studio/download

Answer 4

There's a higher learning curve than most editors, but vim and the taglist plugin:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script%5Fid=273

http://www.vim.org/

After a few months of using you'll be far more efficient at editing text due to the sheer number of combinations/shortcuts in vim, it's just so powerful and can easily be extended by custom plugins that even you could make yourself.

Answer 5

Bluefish. Free, but might not cover all of your requirements.

Answer 6

Since Eclipse was already mentioned and even though this might be to large for what you are looking for...

Aptana Studio (based on Eclipse) is specialized on web development and has some really nice features. Comes as stand-alone or eclipse plug-in.

Answer 7

Take a look at Activestate's Komodo Edit 5.1. Here is the featurelist

EDIT: I almost forgot jEdit

Answer 8

there are many HTML editors, but I don't like them...

phpDesigner is a good choice for you!

instead, I use Notepad++ =D

Answer 9

Netbeans - has auto complete as well. And it comes with with add-ons for PHP. It's completely free.

http://www.netbeans.org/

Answer 10

I use geany a lot. low footprint compared the java editor ;)

Answer 11

Geany. Super lightweight, meets many of your requirements and feels like text editor first and foremost.

Answer 12

Notepad++ is completely open-source and free. It is compiled to run on multiple operating systems. It is extremely light-weight compared to other editors, which makes it faster and more powerful for slower computers. I does syntax highlighting for many supported languages, and allows highlighting of variable/element names. It is what I use and I highly recommend it.

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Answer 13

I recommend you NetBeans.. its free. it is available for all platforms, and mostly it is good for editing php, jsp, java, css, html, ...

believe me, i'm using it for php development and its the best suited ide i can find...

Answer 14

I would like to recommend jEdit.

Answer 15

Rapid Webpage Creator - works like the online editor at w3schools.com

• HTML, CSS and Javascript editor
• Preview at the same time
• Runs within IE offline