It’s a free text editor that many programmers download purely to open when they need to quickly see code and paste one-off snippets from FTP clients without having to wait for their IDE to load.

For HTML documents, Atom 1.25 style attributes now are tokenized as CSS. For syntax highlighting and code-folding, an incremental parsing system, called tree-sitter, is available in beta form.

Don’t worry, it’s beyond simple to use. This notepad trick works because of HTML’s “contenteditable” attribute that can turn any part of a web page into an interactive area for editing text.

Today’s Notepad text editor, for one, barely differs from the 1985 version. Although a text editor should be a lightweight tool (and an inexpensive one), it should still pack a decent punch.

In web editing, this is called a WYSIWYG (pronounced WIZ-zee-wig) editor. It stands for What You See Is What You Get. Given that you will recognize many of the buttons used in the WYSIWYG editor, we ...

NOTE Basically, you can copy text from word processors and browsers to the input window via the clipboard. Tables, images and even links can also be copied. However, this can transfer fonts and other ...