I continue to share useful tools with you and today I’m going to give you the list of good CSS editors.
Of course there are HTML editors with CSS support and most CSS professionals don’t use any editors except Notepad, but I’m sure many of you would appreciate a more sophisticated development environment for CSS coding these CSS editors offer. Besides, if you are new to CSS, you can learn by analyzing the style sheets and using live-editing, thus getting to understand how the design is actually built up.
The idea of a CSS editor lies in combining the HTML-source code with editing features of CSS-stylesheets and the website layout within a comfortable interface. Many CSS editors also offer some additional tools and features for debugging and testing, validation and preview in different browsers and many more.
Well, here is my list of good CSS editors you might find handy:
Among the features this editor offers are error check, cross-browser compatibility check, W3C CSS validator and many more.
* Xyle
Modifying the CSS-code with this advanced editor for Mac users you’ll see the changes immediately in the browser window. Among key features are the ability to filter large CSS files using smart groups, automatic formatting and selector matching
If you are a CSS beginner you’ll like this free editor. True to its name it is really very simple.
This powerful and easy to use editor is highly interactive and platform independent. With this editor you are able to edit the whole CSS file or select the fragments of it and edit them separately.
* CSSEdit
CSSEdit offers real-time styling of style sheets for Mac users. The editor features W3C standards validator, live-preview, integration in web-browsers, project management and others.
This editor for Windows users offers integration with W3C CSS and HTML validators, CSS checker and validator, syntax highlighting for CSS and HTML documents, CSS code compressor, save and open files directly from FTP, fully customizable interface and many other useful features.
Well, if you have anything to share about the above mentioned CSS editors or if you’d like to give us a hint about the editor that wasn’t named in the list, do not hesitate and let us know in the comments below.
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I tend to use firebug after or during a design process, this plug-in installs into mozilla firefox, pressing F12 you can inspect any element, debug, edit CSS, see how it looks live in browser and litterally paste in your edited CSS and watch it take shape just the way you wanted it to. Highly reccomended for any developer.
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