Comparison of HTML editors

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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of HTML editors.

Please see the individual products' articles for further information, comparison of text editors for information on text editors, and comparison of word processors or information on word processors, many of which have features to assist with writing HTML.

General information[]

Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.

Editor Version Year Creator Software license
Amaya 11.4.4 (January 18) 2012 W3C, INRIA W3C
Aptana Studio 3.6.0 (August 1) 2014 Aptana GPL
Arachnophilia 5.5, build 2935 (March 9) 2018 Paul Lutus [1] LGPL
Atom 1.46.0 (May 5) 2020 GitHub MIT
Bluefish 2.2.11 (January 24) 2020 Bluefish GPL-3.0-or-later
BlueGriffon 3.1 (October 14) 2019 Disruptive Innovations MPL-2.0
Brackets 1.13 (June 18) 2018 Adobe MIT
Claris Homepage 3.0 1998 Claris Proprietary
Coda 2 2012 Panic, Inc. Proprietary
Codelobster 5.10.1 (August 22) 2016 Codelobster Software Proprietary
CoffeeCup HTML Editor 15.1 (July 10) 2015 CoffeeCup Software Proprietary
CudaText 1.57.0 (June 25) 2018 UVViewSoft (alexey_t, kvichans, matthias030) MPL-2.0
Contribute CS6.5 (8)(August 23) 2012 Adobe Systems (formerly Macromedia) Proprietary
Dreamweaver CC 2020 (20.1) (February) 2020 Adobe Systems (formerly Macromedia) Proprietary
EZGenerator 4.1 (December) 2012 Image-Line Proprietary
Freeway 7.1.3 (May 5) 2016 Softpress Proprietary
GoLive 9.0 (June 1) 2007 Adobe Systems (formerly GoLive Systems) Proprietary
Google Web Designer (July) 2018 Google, Inc. Proprietary
HTML-Kit 292 Chami.com Proprietary
KompoZer 0.7.10/0.8b3 (August 30, 2007/ March 1, 2010) 2010 Kaze MPL-1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
LibreOffice 6.1.2 (September 27) 2018 The Document Foundation MPL-2.0/Apache-2.0/others
Maqetta Preview 5 (March 28) 2013 IBM BSD-3-Clause or AFL-2.1
Microsoft Expression Web 4.0.1460.0 (December 20) 2012 Microsoft Proprietary
Microsoft Office FrontPage 11.0.8174 (October 21) 2003 Microsoft Proprietary
Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0 1997 Microsoft Proprietary
Web Architect 6.9.1 (July 25) 2012 mirabyte Proprietary
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 (December 4) 2006 Microsoft Proprietary
Microsoft Visual Studio Code 1.56.2 (April) 2018 Microsoft MIT
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Microsoft Proprietary
Mobirise 4.8 2018 Mobirise.com Proprietary
Mozilla Composer 1.7.13 (April 21) 2006 Mozilla Foundation MPL-1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
Nvu 1.0 (June 28) 2005 Linspire / Daniel Glazman MPL-1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
openElement 1.44 (January 21) 2014 openElement Apache-2.0
OpenOffice.org 4.1.5 (October 19) 2017 Apache Foundation MPL/Apache-2.0/others
oXygenXML Editor[2] 17.1 (October) 2015 Proprietary (some components Apache-2.0)
Quanta Plus 3.5.9 (February 20) 2008 The Quanta Team GPL
RocketCake 1.4 2017 Ambiera Proprietary
SeaMonkey Composer 2.53.1 (February 28) 2020 SeaMonkey Council MPL-2.0
TextMate 2.0.19 (February 25) 2021 GPL-3.0-or-later
TOWeb 5.07 (July 28) 2013 Lauyan Software Proprietary
WebStorm IDE 7.0 (September 26) 2013 JetBrains Proprietary
Editor Version Year Creator Software license

Operating system support[]

Editor Windows OS X Linux BSD Unix iOS Android
Amaya Terminated 2012 Terminated 2012 Terminated 2012 Terminated 2012 Terminated 2012 No No
Aptana Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No
Arachnophilia Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No
Atom Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Bluefish Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
BlueGriffon Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Brackets Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Claris Homepage Terminated (3.0) No No No No No No
Codelobster Yes No No No No No No
CoffeeCup HTML Editor Yes Yes No No No No No
CudaText Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Contribute Yes Yes No No No No No
Dreamweaver Yes Yes No No No No No
EZGenerator Yes No No No No No No
Freeway No Yes No No No No No
GoLive Terminated (9.0) Terminated (9.0) No No No No No
HTML-Kit Yes No No No No No No
KompoZer[3] Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No
LibreOffice Yes Yes Yes source only source only No No
Maqetta Yes Yes Cloud[4] Cloud[4] No No No
Microsoft Expression Web Yes No No No No No No
Microsoft FrontPage Terminated (2003) No No No No No No
Microsoft SharePoint Designer Yes No No No No No No
Microsoft Visual Web Developer Yes No No No No No No
Web Architect Yes No No No No No No
Mobirise Yes Yes No No No No Yes
Mozilla Composer Terminated (1.7.13) Terminated (1.7.13) Terminated (1.7.13) Terminated (1.7.13) Terminated (1.7.13) No No
Nvu[5] Terminated (1.0) Terminated (1.0) Terminated (1.0) Terminated (1.0) No No No
openElement Yes No No No No No No
OpenOffice.org Yes Yes Yes source only source only No No
oXygenXML Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Quanta Gold (deprecated) Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Quanta Plus No Terminated 2009 Terminated 2009 Terminated 2009 Terminated 2009 No No
RocketCake Yes Yes No No No No No
SeaMonkey Composer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
TOWeb Yes No No No No No No
WebStorm IDE Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Editor Windows OS X Linux BSD Unix iOS Android

Editor features[]

Editor WYSIWYG FTP Upload WebDAV Upload Server-side scripting Shared editing Spell checking Templates Templates Update Sync Page Preview Form Handler
Amaya Yes No Yes No No Yes Partial[6] No Yes ?
Aptana No Yes ? Yes (via plugins) Yes No Some (i.e. Snippets) ? Yes ?
Arachnophilia No ? ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes ?
Bluefish No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
BlueGriffon Yes No
(add-on)[7] 		No ? No Yes Yes
(via commercial proprietary add-on)[8] 		No Yes ?
Brackets "Live Preview" in-browser Yes (via extension) No Yes No Yes (via extension) Yes (via extension) No Yes ?
Claris Homepage Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes No Yes ?
Codelobster No Yes No Yes No No Yes ? Yes ?
CoffeeCup HTML Editor No Yes ? No No Yes Yes ? Yes ?
Dreamweaver Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
EZGenerator Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes ?
Freeway Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes ? Yes Yes
GoLive Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes ? Yes ?
HTML-Kit No Yes ? Yes No Yes Yes ? Yes ?
KompoZer Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes No Yes ?
LibreOffice Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ?
Maqetta Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes ?
Microsoft Expression Web Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Microsoft FrontPage Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ?
Microsoft SharePoint Designer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ?
Microsoft Visual Web Developer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ?
Mobirise Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes ? Yes Yes
Web Architect No Yes ? Yes No Yes Yes ? Yes ?
Nvu Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes ?
openElement Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes ? Yes Yes
OpenOffice.org Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ?
oXygenXML Editor Partial (more like WYSIWYM) Yes and SFTP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial (via XSLT to browser) maybe, depends on type.
Quanta Plus Yes Yes No (cvs instead) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
RocketCake Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes
SeaMonkey Composer Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No No Yes ?
TOWeb Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes ? Yes Yes
Editor WYSIWYG FTP Upload WebDAV Upload Server-side scripting Shared editing Spell checking Templates Templates Update Sync Page Preview Form Handler

Web technology support[]

Editor CSS2 CSS3 Frames Java JavaScript XSLT XHTML MathML XForms RSS Atom XPath
Amaya[9] Partial ? No No No No Yes Yes No No No ?
Aptana Yes ? Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No
Arachnophilia Yes ? Yes ? Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ?
Bluefish Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
BlueGriffon Yes
(via commercial proprietary add-on)[10] 		? ? ? ? ? Yes Yes
(via commercial proprietary add-on)[11] 		? ? ? ?
Brackets Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? Yes Yes ?
Claris Homepage Partial ? Yes No Yes No No No No No No No
Codelobster Yes ? Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No No No No
CoffeeCup HTML Editor Yes ? Yes No Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes No
Dreamweaver Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial Yes[1] Yes ? Yes
Freeway Yes ? Yes Partial Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No No
GoLive Yes ? Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No
HTML-Kit Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No
KompoZer Yes ? No Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No
LibreOffice Yes ? Yes Yes (optional) Yes (and Python) Yes (that's how export works) Yes Yes ? ? ? ?
Maqetta Yes ? ? No Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Microsoft Expression Web Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Microsoft FrontPage Partial ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Microsoft SharePoint Designer Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Microsoft Visual Web Developer Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Nvu Yes ? No No Yes No Yes No No No No No
openElement Yes ? Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes No No
OpenOffice.org Yes ? Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ?
oXygenXML Editor Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Quanta Plus Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ? Yes
RocketCake Yes ? No Yes Yes ? ? ? No No No ?
SeaMonkey Composer Yes ? Yes No Yes No Yes Yes (rendering, but no tools) No No No ?
TOWeb Yes ? Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No No
Web Architect Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes ?
WebStorm IDE Yes ? Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No ? ? Yes
Editor CSS2 CSS3 Frames Java JavaScript XSLT XHTML  MathML XForms RSS Atom XPath

HTML/XHTML specification support[]

Specification HTML 3.2 HTML 4.01 HTML 5 XHTML 1.0 XHTML 1.1 Validating
Variant strict trans. f.set strict trans. f.set
Amaya No No Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Aptana ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Arachnophilia ? ? ? ? No Yes ? ? ? Yes
Bluefish Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[12]
BlueGriffon No Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? ?
Brackets ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ?
Claris Homepage ? ? ? ? No ? ? ? ? ?
Codelobster Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
CoffeeCup HTML Editor No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Contribute ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Dreamweaver Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes [13] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Freeway Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
GoLive Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
HTML-Kit ? ? Yes ? No ? Yes ? ? Yes
LibreOffice ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ?
KompoZer No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No No Yes
Maqetta ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ?
Microsoft Expression Web No Yes Yes Yes Yes[14] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Microsoft FrontPage ? ? ? ? No ? ? ? ? ?
Microsoft SharePoint Designer ? ? ? ? No ? ? ? ? ?
Microsoft Visual Web Developer ? ? ? ? No ? ? ? ? ?
Mozilla Composer ? ? ? ? No ? ? ? ? ?
openElement ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? Yes
OpenOffice.org ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ?
oXygenXML Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Quanta Gold ? ? ? ? No ? ? ? ? ?
Quanta Plus ? ? ? ? No ? ? ? ? ?
RocketCake ? ? Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ?
SeaMonkey Composer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
TOWeb No No No No Yes No No No No Yes
Web Architect Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[15]
WebStorm IDE ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ?
Variant strict trans. f.set strict trans. f.set
Specification HTML 3.2 HTML 4.01 HTML 5 XHTML 1.0 XHTML 1.1 Validating

Image format support[]

Image file formats are standardized means of organizing and storing digital images. Image files are composed of digital data in one of several formats. Some formats of image files may be preferred by website designers for smaller file size and higher image quality. Here are the most popular formats of image files and the table below makes a comparison about whether the software for website design can display the file format on the web page.

Editor JPEG GIF PNG TIFF SVG
Amaya Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Aptana Yes Yes Yes Yes Depends
Arachnophilia ? ? ? ? ?
Bluefish Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
BlueGriffon Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Brackets Yes Yes Yes No Yes
(via extension)[16]
Claris Homepage Yes Yes No No No
Codelobster Yes Yes Yes No No
CoffeeCup HTML Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Dreamweaver Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Freeway Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
GoLive Yes Yes Yes No Yes
KompoZer Yes Yes Yes No No
Maqetta ? ? ? ? ?
Microsoft Expression Web Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Microsoft FrontPage[17] Yes Yes Yes ? Depends
Microsoft SharePoint Designer Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Microsoft Visual Web Developer Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Mobirise Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Nvu Yes Yes Yes No No
openElement Yes Yes Yes No No
OpenOffice.org Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
oXygenXML Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Quanta Plus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RocketCake Yes Yes Yes No No
SeaMonkey Composer Yes Yes Yes No Yes
TOWeb Yes Yes Yes No No
Web Architect Yes Yes Yes Yes Depends
WebStorm IDE Yes Yes Yes No No
Editor JPEG GIF PNG TIFF SVG

Early HTML comparisons[]

The following is a comparison of early HTML editors.

Comparison of early HTML editors
Program Author or Based On Version System HTML
Compliant		 Display Forms Tables Integrated
Browser		 Cost
asWedit Andrzej Stochniol 1.1 Unix HTML 3 source Yes Yes No freeware
HoTMetaL SoftQuad 1.0+ Unix,Windows HTML 1 WYSIWYG Partial No No freeware
HoTMetaL pro SoftQuad 1 Unix, Windows, Macintosh HTML 2 WYSIWYG Yes Yes No commercial
Live Markup MediaTech 16b4a Windows HTML 2 WYSIWYG No No No commercial
Symposia GRIF 0.8 Unix HTML 2 WYSIWYG Yes Yes Yes beta
Tkhtml Liem Bahenmann 2.3 Unix No source Yes No No freeware
Phoenix University of Chicago 0.1.7 Unix No WYSIWYG No No Yes freeware
WebPages DART Software 1.7 NextStep HTML 1 WYSIWYG No No No commercial
WebMagic SiliconGraphics 1 Irix HTML 2 WYSIWYG No No No commercial
Webtor Jochen Schales .91prealpha2 Macintosh HTML2 WYSIWYG No No No freeware

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Paul Lutus". 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
  2. ^ Though the focus of this software is clearly XML, it covers so much of the HTML and XHTML features (all of them, basically) as well as generating HTML and XHTML based documents and sites (e.g. WebHelp, ePub, etc.) that leaving it out just appears a bit weird.
  3. ^ Nvu/Kompozer can be built successfully on any platform with the Netscape Portable Runtime.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b [Google Chrome (current release), Mozilla Firefox 4 users can edit HTML if Maquetta is running in the cloud.]
  5. ^ Nvu can be built successfully on any platform with the Netscape Portable Runtime.
  6. ^ "Templates". www.w3.org.
  7. ^ Bluegriffon's FireFTP ads shortcut to FTP client
  8. ^ "BlueGriffon". www.bluegriffon.com.
  9. ^ not Unicode-savvy
  10. ^ http://www.bluegriffon.com/index.php?pages/CssEditor BlueGriffon's commercial proprietary CSS editor add-on
  11. ^ http://www.bluegriffon.com/index.php?pages/MathML BlueGriffon's commercial proprietary MathML add-on
  12. ^ External tools such as weblint and tidy are integrated
  13. ^ Available with CS5 using the Adobe Dreamweaver Add-on pack available at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/html5pack.html
  14. ^ For error checking on markup and intellisense on tags and attributes an add-in is needed. This is available at http://gallery.expression.microsoft.com/en-us/Web4HTML5SchemaAddIn Archived 2011-01-03 at the Wayback Machine .
  15. ^ External tools such as W3C validator services and tidy are integrated
  16. ^ "peterflynn/svg-preview". April 1, 2019 – via GitHub.
  17. ^ Actual amount of supported formats depend on installed converter. FrontPage uses Microsoft Office converters.
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