html and CSS on a Mac? Which editors?

[jvstiniann]

I'm a print designer doing some web work and looking for a good editor for html and css.

I have dreamweaver but it just seems clunky to me. I want to do code, preview and have some helpers maybe.

What are the industry standard editors for mac? Not hard core coding but a hybrid of wysiwyg and text based.

[n2art2002]

I'm not sure about mac but I have a pc and I use notepad to create my codes (html, xhtml and css). From what I understand you can also create code on Microsoft word. Just make sure you have your doc type in the beginning and make sure you but your .html at the end of your file name when you save it so the computer will recognize it as code and not a text document.

[kathy8232001]

I have been using BBEdit from BareBones software for years. It has syntax coloring and error checking that will work for HTML and CSS as well as a lot of other programming languages. It has its own preview or you can choose from any browser you have installed on your computer.

http://www.barebones.com/

Beware of using Word to create any kind of source code. Unless you take extraordinary measures, it fills your content with hidden junk characters that may or may not display well, plus the markup it produces is pretty much awful.

On Macintosh OS X you can also use the standard UNIX and Linux editors, such as vi, vim, emacs, pico, etc. in the Terminal application and view the file using a browser.