CSS editor : Java Glossary

CSS editor

You can create CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) style sheet files with an ordinary text editor, even Notepad, however if the editor has special features it can greatly speed up the process of creating, editing and validating files. An ideal editor would have the following features:

Lets you have some idea how a style you are coding will render.
Lets you select colours and fonts visually and proofreed colours and fonts visually.
Ensures your syntax is valid.
Has context-senstive online help.
Can tidy/sort the css style sheet.
Should validate your markup to find styles not defined in the style sheet or orphaned styles that occur in the style sheet but are never used in the markup.
Should let you globally rename styles throughout all your css and html..

Some of the editors I have used include:

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) editors
Editor	Advantages	Disadvantages
TopStyle	This is what I mostly use. It is specifically for editing CSS, nothing else. It will edit, validate, sort and tidy.	The main thing I don’t like about it is the source itself is in the left column and the dialogs to edit the source are on the right. Clicking on the left does not take you to the corresponding place on the right. You must manually search for it.
Adobe Dreamweaver	The most commonly used editor by web professionals. .	Expensive. Slow to start up. A bit overwhelming if you don’t need the advanced features. .
Amaya	free, opensource. Small and quick.	No beautify.
CSE HTMLValidator	Primarily an HTML/CSS validator. Does nice syntax colouring.	No particular aids to editing. It is essentially Notepad with syntax colourising.
IntelliJ Idea	general programmer editor with special features for specific languages including CSS, can write plugins in Java	Expensive, but free for open source projects. Somewhat slow.
MicroEdge Visual Slick Edit	very quick, general programmer editor, arbitrarily elaborate macros, no beautify.	Expensive.

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