HTML Editors

HTML Tidy

• Console
• W3C license

• HTML filter
• Useful for cleaning up HTML files and migrating to CSS and XHTML
• http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/  (Clean up your web pages with HTML Tidy)

Syntax

tidy [option...] [file...] [option...] [file...]

-out, -o <file>   specify the output markup file
-modify, -m       modify the original input files
-config <file>    set config options from specified file
-f      <file>    write errors to the specified file
 
-indent, -i       indent element content
-wrap <column>    wrap text at specified column (default: 68)
-clean, -c        replace font, nobr and center tags by CSS
-bare, -b         strip out smart quotes and em dashes, etc.
-asxhtml          convert HTML to well formed XHTML
-access <level>   do additional accessibility checks [1,2,3]

Usage

• Use --blah blarg for any configuration option "blah" with argument "blarg".
• Single letter options apart from -f may be combined.

KompoZer

• Derived from Nvu (discontinued), which was derived from Mozilla Composer
• Supports XHTML

Mozilla Composer

• X11
• Doesn't support inline PHP code
• Doesn't support XHTML

• Edit | Preferences | Composer; uncheck the check box for "Save images and other associated files when saving pages"

Netscape Composer

• X11

• Edit | Preferences | Composer | Publisher; uncheck the check boxes for "Maintain links" and "Keep images with page"

Nvu

• Discontinued
• Derived from Mozilla Composer