Any disadvantages using notepad?

[Banjika]

I am a beginner learning the basics of HTML.
I have been having fun using Notepad.
Are there any disadvantages or certain things one should not do while using Notepad?

Any text editor better than notepad that anyone will recommend and why is better?

[DaveyBoy]

1st Page 2000 - get that, i use it all the time now.

Its better for a number of reasons, such as colour co-ordinated tags, plus the auto preview, shows how it will look in the browser. Awesome.

[LazyJim]

basic notepad is missing many text editing features such as drag&drop.

As DB says, syntax highlighting is ac great help when waddling around in code, (that's colour-coded code).

[Calisonder]

dreamweaver is the best, but before you go out and buy anything, i would just mess around with html and learn the basics, and see how much you really like it before you go out and buy an expensive program

[SVB]

For true coders, syntax higlighting etc is just a handy tool. The only problem with notepad is the filesize limitation. After alot od code, its too big. I use 'Programmers File Editor'. It has no filesize limitations, and you can point it to any compiler to automatically compile or test your code

[Calisonder]

ya the color coding really does help, and some programs help you spit out code faster, like in dreamweaver there is options to set it to.... say when your typing "tab" it will automaticaly finish the word and write "table" (i know i'm speking jiberish, hope this kinda makes since), it's just faster, and when you get into writing php and javascript, the color's really make a differance

[kwvarga]

Disadvantage? I think it would be an advantage !

[Emancipator]

notepad is very limited. Start using a program with proper syntax and you will find life so much easier. i am big on color coded syntax. I use dreamweaver but there are piles of good free programs for hand coding.

[Jazzee]

I just started using a program called Notepad++. It's basically notepad with syntax highlighting.

[SVB]

For html, dreamweavers code view is the king, and you can see what changes the code makes in the deisgn view, very handy.

[LazyJim]

Link me sara!

[Jazzee]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus

[Emancipator]

Textpad is the best since you can write your own syntax color codes. But yes dreamweaver is the king for dynamic code

[LazyJim]

Yeah TextPad is wht I've got, but I use AceHTML because it recognises PHP / JavaScript / CSS inside HTML and changes styntax accordingly. Do you know of a way to do this in TextPad? (I guess the .syn could get pretty complex)

[Distorted]

I usually use html-kit. It has lots of nifty gadgets that help a lot.

[LazyJim]

there appear to be an abundance of text / code editors and it boils down to personal taste, and learning how to make the slightly diffrent interfaces and features work for you personally.

Sara that's one of the best I've seen, the show/hide elements feature is good, it is part of the way toward an idea I had for an XML (and XHTML) editor that leaves the linear text world behind and treats tags like the nodes of the document tree they realyl are.

I might make my idea work for real in HTML & JavaScript.

[Emancipator]

Hey LJ great points, and no i am not a guru on textpad, I just use it for writing game code. For webdev I use dreamweaver

[Sonat Dennis Ozturk]

Dreamweaver and HomeSite is the best i think.

[LazyJim]

Originally Posted by Emancipator

Hey LJ great points,

as always ... hahaha

and no i am not a guru on textpad

damn!

After I make my DOM vs Text hybrid editor in DHTML could you write it in some compilable language?

[ferret77]

UltraEdit32 is the best, tons of features, syntax highlighting

find and replace functions galore, find and replace in files