HTML & CSS editors for Mac.

[Retroa]

Hi, I'm new to the Mac and I have been a Windows user for many years, I design websites using HTML & CSS. I was wondering what the best application for Mac is to do this, other than Adobe Dreamweaver.

 

[QuarterSwede]

Panic's Coda

 

[Retroa]

Thank's for the quick reply, I will try this out and review it, thank you

 

[elppa]

The best CSS Editor I have used on any platform is Mac Rabbit's CSSEdit.

 

[FreeState]

BBEdit is what I use (I code 100% by hand). www.barebonessoftware.com

 

[Fuchal]

Coda for sure

 

[techpr]

For full HTML/CSS --> Coda 1.7!!!! no contest.

 

[Locodice]

Coda knocks the socks off of everything, absolutely amazing if you handcode everything from scratch.

 

[adrian.oconnor]

These are the popular options for coders who don't mind hand-crafting the HTML:

BBEdit (old school, lots of fans)
Coda (mainly used by PHP fans)
TextMate (mainly used by Rails fans, I use this mostly)
MacVim (I like vim)
XCode (it's nice, but it's a bit clunky for HTML)
NetBeans (slightly clunky, mainly Java based but does other stuff)
Eclipse (plugins for everything, slightly clunky, mainly Java based)

DreamWeaver is not a programmers tool, it's for basic web building. If that's what you want to do, there's also RapidWeaver.

I also recommend ColorSchemer Pro -- it's on the app store right now at a discount (about $10).

 

[MartyMacLord]

Xcode

Xcode does the job quite well.

 

[MACza]

Flux 3 is great

Coda

 

[Truffy]

I use BBEdit. I've been trying to like Coda, but there's something not quite right about it.

 

[emiljan]

Aptana Studio v3. Works well and its free.

 

[bpaluzzi]

Coda is great for HTML/CSS. If you get into any back-end programming, you'll want more of a proper IDE. Eclipse is what I prefer. It brings a lot of things that Coda just can't do -- inline function definitions, completion/signatures for user-defined functions and classes, etc.

In general, Coda is a "jack of all trades, master of none" type of application. The browser isn't as powerful as a standalone browser with proper dev tools/plugins installed, the SVN client doesn't do things that standalone SVN apps can, and the editor is a decent text editor, but no replacement for a proper IDE.