Online HTML Editors for Web Developers

Online HTML editors makes it easy and fast to create HTML markup directly on a website or without installing an HTML editor. Creating HTML markup is the most essential part of publishing content online. For programmers, HTML is rather simple, and easy to learn, but for everyone else it is a programming language and takes focus away from the real task at hand; creating valuable content. HTML rarely works well alone and some CSS styling need to be applied to make web pages look great.

In modern publishing solution, like e.g. WordPress, all of the layout and styling complexities are managed by the active theme and styling is well separated from the page content. A few examples of this could be WordPress blog themes, WordPress magazine themes or even e-commerce themes. If, however, you need to dive into the CSS code and do some tweaking you may find it useful to have a few online CSS tools and generators available to e.g. choose colors, create columns and grids, style buttons and so on. When it comes to HTML, you will also be able to find online tools and editors to make your life easier. Some online HTML editors can be downloaded and installed into web pages while others are just made available for use online. Keep in mind that you should not edit confidential text using online tools, unless they are hosted on a server you can trust. Please leave a comment if I missed a good HTML editor or if you have experience to share in this area.

TinyMCE

TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB. TinyMCE has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances. TinyMCE is very easy to integrate into other Content Management Systems.