writing html and seeing a preview of it

[zoran]

Is there an app (a text editor or whatever) that will have 2 windows, one to write html code and the other to preview the outcome?

 

[BrianBaughn]

Kompozer is pretty good at that.

 

[zoran]

Kompozer is pretty good at that.

Thanx but its not looking very "user friendly", looks more like a windows app!

 

[IHelpId10t5]

Just do like every professional developer does and have an actual web browser open alongside your editor. Just save changes in your editor then click over and refresh the browser to see your changes.

 

[elppa]

There are many options because it is fairly simple to put an embedded web view into an application.

There was also a similar question on the web design forum a couple of weeks back which might be worth a read: Easy to use (but advanced enough) editor?.

I suggest brackets.

 

[joshlalonde]

I suggest brackets.

^^ That's exactly what you're looking for!

 

[zoran]

What does Brackets exactly do? I dont think it has preview in it, preview is seen on a browser, right?

 

[joshlalonde]

What does Brackets exactly do? I dont think it has preview in it, preview is seen on a browser, right?

Alright, so Brackets is an open-source project headed by Adobe. It has lots of extensions you can install on it, and it's entirely free.

Screenshots: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1cfuxdb2bqft17m/Screenshot 2014-11-30 20.09.54.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/iasvq8ealytmqrk/Screenshot 2014-11-30 20.10.32.png?dl=0

As for preview, you have the ability to run Live preview. That is, as you update your code, so does the preview. It uses Chrome.

When you're previewing, it'll highlight stuff too:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fpras36ext956yf/Screenshot 2014-11-30 20.12.22.png?dl=0

Also, don't mind my awful layout. I'm in the middle of fixing my template.