# Comparison of HTML editors

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of HTML editors.
Please see the individual products' articles for further information, comparison of text editors for information on text editors, and comparison of word processors or information on word processors, many of which have features to assist with writing HTML.

## General information

Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.
| Editor | Developer | Latest release | Latest release | License |
| Editor | Developer | Version | Date | License |
| Amaya | W3C, INRIA | 11.4.4 | 2012-01-18 | W3C |
| Apache OpenOffice | Apache Foundation | 4.1.15 | 2023-12-22 | MPL/Apache-2.0/others |
| Aptana Studio | Aptana | 3.7.2 | 2018-07-30 | GPL |
| Arachnophilia | Paul Lutus | 5.5.2953 | 2020-10-29 | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Atom | GitHub | 1.63.1 | 2022-11-23 | MIT |
| Bluefish | Bluefish open source community | 2.2.16 | 2024-09-22 | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| BlueGriffon | Disruptive Innovations | 3.1 | 2019-10-14 | MPL-2.0 |
| Brackets | Adobe | 2.2.1 | 2023-03-22 | MIT |
| Claris Homepage | Claris | 3.0 | 1998 | Proprietary |
| Coda | Panic, Inc. | 2.7.7 | 2020-11-05 | Proprietary |
| Codelobster | Codelobster Software | 2.5.0 | 2024-01-08 | Proprietary |
| CoffeeCup HTML Editor | CoffeeCup Software | 17.0.882 | 2022-04-08 | Proprietary |
| CudaText | UVViewSoft | 1.217.5.1 | 2024-09-05 | MPL-2.0 |
| Contribute | Adobe Systems | CS6.5 (8) | 2012-08-23 | Proprietary |
| Dreamweaver | Adobe Systems | 21.4 | 2024-05-06 | Proprietary |
| EZGenerator | Image-Line | 4.1 | 2012-12 | Proprietary |
| Freeway | Softpress | 7.1.3 | 2016-05-05 | Proprietary |
| GoLive | Adobe Systems | 9.0 | 2007-06-01 | Proprietary |
| Google Web Designer | Google, Inc. | | 2018-07 | Proprietary |
| HTML-Kit | Chami.com | 292 | | Proprietary |
| KompoZer | Kaze | 0.7.10 | 2007-10-05 | MPL-1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 |
| LibreOffice | The Document Foundation | 24.8.3 | 2024-11-14 | MPL-2.0/Apache-2.0/others |
| Maqetta | IBM | 10.0.2 | 2013-07-03 | BSD-3-Clause or AFL-2.1 |
| Microsoft Expression Web | Microsoft | 4.0.1460.0 | 2012-12-20 | Proprietary |
| Microsoft Office FrontPage | Microsoft | 11.0.8174 | 2003-10-21 | Proprietary |
| Microsoft FrontPage Express | Microsoft | 2.0 | 1997 | Proprietary |
| Microsoft SharePoint Designer | Microsoft | 2007 | 2006-12-04 | Proprietary |
| Microsoft Visual Studio Code | Microsoft | 1.95.3 | 2024-11-15 | MIT |
| Microsoft Visual Web Developer | Microsoft | | 2008 | Proprietary |
| Mobirise | Mobirise.com | 5.8.14 | 2023-05-29 | Proprietary |
| Mozilla Composer | Mozilla Foundation | | | MPL-1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 |
| Nvu | Linspire / Daniel Glazman | 1.0 | 2005-06-28 | MPL-1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 |
| OpenOffice.org | Sun Microsystems (1999–2009) Oracle Corporation (2010–2011) | 3.3.0 | 2011-01-17 | LGPL-3.0 |
| oXygenXML Editor | Syncro Soft | 24.1 | 2022-03-10 | Proprietary |
| Quanta Plus | Trinity Desktop Environment | 3.5.9 | 2008-02-26 | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| RocketCake | Ambiera | 5.1 | 2023-03-15 | Proprietary |
| SeaMonkey Composer | SeaMonkey Council | 2.53.19 | 2024-09-04 | MPL-2.0 |
| TextMate | Macromates | 2.0.23 | 2021-10-12 | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| TOWeb | Lauyan Software | 10.06 | 2022-02-07 | Proprietary |
| WebStorm IDE | JetBrains | 2022.1 | 2022-04-11 | Proprietary |
| Editor | Developer | Latest release | Latest release | License |
| Editor | Developer | Version | Date | License |
* ↑ alexey_t, kvichans, matthias030.
* 1 2 Formerly Macromedia.
* ↑ Formerly GoLive Systems.
* ↑ Though the focus of this software is clearly XML, it covers so much of the HTML and XHTML features (all of them, basically) as well as generating HTML and XHTML based documents and sites (e.g. WebHelp, ePub, etc.) that leaving it out just appears a bit weird.
* ↑ Some components under Apache-2.0.

### Operating system support

| Editor | Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux | BSD | Unix | iOS | Android |
| Amaya | Terminated 2012 | Terminated 2012 | Terminated 2012 | Terminated 2012 | Terminated 2012 | No | No |
| Aptana | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Arachnophilia | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Atom | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Bluefish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| BlueGriffon | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Brackets | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Claris Homepage | Terminated (3.0) | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Codelobster | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| CoffeeCup HTML Editor | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| CudaText | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Contribute | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Dreamweaver | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| EZGenerator | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Freeway | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| GoLive | Terminated (9.0) | Terminated (9.0) | No | No | No | No | No |
| HTML-Kit | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| KompoZer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| LibreOffice | Yes | Yes | Yes | source only | source only | No | No |
| Maqetta | Yes | Yes | Cloud | Cloud | No | No | No |
| Microsoft Expression Web | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Microsoft FrontPage | Terminated (2003) | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Microsoft SharePoint Designer | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Microsoft Visual Web Developer | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Mobirise | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Mozilla Composer | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | No | No |
| Nvu | Terminated (1.0) | Terminated (1.0) | Terminated (1.0) | Terminated (1.0) | No | No | No |
| OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes | Yes | source only | source only | No | No |
| oXygenXML Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Quanta Gold (deprecated) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Quanta Plus | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| RocketCake | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| SeaMonkey Composer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| TOWeb | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| WebStorm IDE | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Editor | Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux | BSD | Unix | iOS | Android |
* ↑ Nvu/Kompozer can be built successfully on any platform with the Netscape Portable Runtime.
* 1 2 [Google Chrome (current release), Mozilla Firefox 4 users can edit HTML if Maqetta is running in the cloud.]
* ↑ Nvu can be built successfully on any platform with the Netscape Portable Runtime.

### Editor features

| Editor | WYSIWYG | FTP Upload | WebDAV Upload | Server-side scripting | Shared editing | Spell checking | Templates | Templates Update Sync | Page Preview | Form Handler |
| Amaya | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | ? |
| Aptana | No | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | Some | ? | Yes | ? |
| Arachnophilia | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| Bluefish | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| BlueGriffon | Yes | No | No | ? | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| Brackets | "Live Preview" in-browser | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| Claris Homepage | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| Codelobster | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| CoffeeCup HTML Editor | No | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| Dreamweaver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| EZGenerator | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| Freeway | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes |
| GoLive | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| HTML-Kit | No | Yes | ? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| KompoZer | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| LibreOffice | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| Maqetta | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
| Microsoft Expression Web | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Microsoft FrontPage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| Microsoft SharePoint Designer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| Microsoft Visual Web Developer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| Mobirise | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Nvu | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| oXygenXML Editor | Partial | Yes and SFTP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Depends |
| Quanta Plus | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| RocketCake | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SeaMonkey Composer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? |
| TOWeb | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Editor | WYSIWYG | FTP Upload | WebDAV Upload | Server-side scripting | Shared editing | Spell checking | Templates | Templates Update Sync | Page Preview | Form Handler |
* ↑ Via plugins.
* ↑ i.e. Snippets.
* ↑ Via add-on.
* ↑ Via commercial proprietary add-on.
* 1 2 3 Via extension.
* ↑ More like WYSIWYM.
* ↑ Via XSLT to browser.
* ↑ cvs instead.

### Web technology support

| Editor | CSS2 | CSS3 | Frames | Java | JavaScript | XSLT | XHTML | MathML | XForms | RSS | Atom | XPath |
| Amaya | Partial | ? | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
| Aptana | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Arachnophilia | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Bluefish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| BlueGriffon | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Brackets | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Claris Homepage | Partial | ? | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Codelobster | Yes | ? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| CoffeeCup HTML Editor | Yes | ? | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Dreamweaver | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes |
| Freeway | Yes | ? | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| GoLive | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| HTML-Kit | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| KompoZer | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| LibreOffice | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes (optional) | Yes (and Python) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Maqetta | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Microsoft Expression Web | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft FrontPage | Partial | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Microsoft SharePoint Designer | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Visual Web Developer | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Nvu | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| OpenOffice.org | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| oXygenXML Editor | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Quanta Plus | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes |
| RocketCake | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | No | No | No | ? |
| SeaMonkey Composer | Yes | ? | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
| TOWeb | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| WebStorm IDE | Yes | ? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | Yes |
| Editor | CSS2 | CSS3 | Frames | Java | JavaScript | XSLT | XHTML | MathML | XForms | RSS | Atom | XPath |
* ↑ Not Unicode-savvy.
* ↑ Via commercial proprietary add-on.
* ↑ Via commercial proprietary add-on.
* ↑ Rendering, but no tools.

### HTML/XHTML specification support

| Specification | HTML 3.2 | HTML 4.01 | HTML 4.01 | HTML 4.01 | HTML 5 | XHTML 1.0 | XHTML 1.0 | XHTML 1.0 | XHTML 1.1 | Validating |
| Variant | | strict | trans. | f.set | | strict | trans. | f.set | | |
| Amaya | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Aptana | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Arachnophilia | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
| Bluefish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| BlueGriffon | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
| Brackets | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Claris Homepage | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Codelobster | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CoffeeCup HTML Editor | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Contribute | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Dreamweaver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Freeway | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| GoLive | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| HTML-Kit | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes |
| LibreOffice | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| KompoZer | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Maqetta | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Microsoft Expression Web | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft FrontPage | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Microsoft SharePoint Designer | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Microsoft Visual Web Developer | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Mozilla Composer | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| OpenOffice.org | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| oXygenXML Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Quanta Gold | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Quanta Plus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| RocketCake | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| SeaMonkey Composer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| TOWeb | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| WebStorm IDE | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Variant | | strict | trans. | f.set | | strict | trans. | f.set | | |
| Specification | HTML 3.2 | HTML 4.01 | HTML 4.01 | HTML 4.01 | HTML 5 | XHTML 1.0 | XHTML 1.0 | XHTML 1.0 | XHTML 1.1 | Validating |

### Image format support

Image file formats are standardized means of organizing and storing digital images. Image files are composed of digital data in one of several formats. Some formats of image files may be preferred by website designers for smaller file size and higher image quality. Here are the most popular formats of image files and the table below makes a comparison about whether the software for website design can display the file format on the web page.
| Editor | JPEG | GIF | PNG | TIFF | SVG |
| Amaya | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Aptana | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Depends |
| Arachnophilia | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Bluefish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| BlueGriffon | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Brackets | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes (via extension) |
| Claris Homepage | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Codelobster | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| CoffeeCup HTML Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Dreamweaver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Freeway | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GoLive | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| KompoZer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Maqetta | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Microsoft Expression Web | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Microsoft FrontPage | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Depends |
| Microsoft SharePoint Designer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Microsoft Visual Web Developer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Mobirise | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Nvu | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| oXygenXML Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Quanta Plus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| RocketCake | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| SeaMonkey Composer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| TOWeb | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| WebStorm IDE | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Editor | JPEG | GIF | PNG | TIFF | SVG |

## Early HTML comparisons

The following is a comparison of early HTML editors.
Comparison of early HTML editors :
| Program | Author or Based On | Version | System | HTML Compliant | Display | Forms | Tables | Integrated Browser | Cost |
| asWedit | Andrzej Stochniol | 1.1 | Unix | HTML 3 | source | Yes | Yes | No | freeware |
| HoTMetaL | SoftQuad | 1.0+ | Unix,Windows | HTML 1 | WYSIWYG | Partial | No | No | freeware |
| HoTMetaL pro | SoftQuad | 1 | Unix, Windows, Macintosh | HTML 2 | WYSIWYG | Yes | Yes | No | commercial |
| Live Markup | MediaTech | 16b4a | Windows | HTML 2 | WYSIWYG | No | No | No | commercial |
| Symposia | GRIF | 0.8 | Unix | HTML 2 | WYSIWYG | Yes | Yes | Yes | beta |
| Tkhtml | Liem Bahenmann | 2.3 | Unix | No | source | Yes | No | No | freeware |
| Phoenix | University of Chicago | 0.1.7 | Unix | No | WYSIWYG | No | No | Yes | freeware |
| WebPages | DART Software | 1.7 | NextStep | HTML 1 | WYSIWYG | No | No | No | commercial |
| WebMagic | SiliconGraphics | 1 | Irix | HTML 2 | WYSIWYG | No | No | No | commercial |
| Webtor | Jochen Schales | .91prealpha2 | Macintosh | HTML2 | WYSIWYG | No | No | No | freeware |