HTML-Kit is an HTML editor for Microsoft Windows made by chami.com. The application is a full-featured HTML editor designed to help HTML, XHTML and XML authors to edit, format, lookup help, validate, preview and publish web pages.

Despite its name and the light download size, HTML-Kit is a multi-purpose tool that falls into the class of HTML editors that emphasize editing HTML code directly, although it does have built-in functionality for previewing code. HTML-Kit supports authoring of multiple web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and various server-side scripting frameworks.

HTML-Kit supports multiple file types and standards, it includes internal, external, server-side and live preview modes; FTP Workspace for uploading, downloading and online editing of files

Another feature of HTML-Kit is the ability to add plugins that extend the program's capabilities. Over 400 free plugins are available for download via the program's web site (allowing each user to choose only the extra features he or she needs - the default installation of HTML Kit does include some plugins of general utility, such as HTML Tidy for creating standards-compliant HTML/XHTML pages, a library of code snippets and an HTML color picker).

HTML-Kit offers the ability to run batch actions such as global search and replace in multiple files, Internet Explorer and Mozilla / Netscape side-by-side previewing, W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines checking through HTML Tidy, internal Command Prompt, TimeTracker, translations, Text to Speech Wizard, UnicodePad and more.

HTML-Kit is freeware, although extra features are available at a cost to registered users.

An Alpha version, HTML-Kit Tools (build 300), is in development and is currently only available for download by registered users. Build 292, the current stable build is available for download as freeware.

HTML-Kit gets a 5-star rating by download.com. HTML-Kit gets a 4-star rating by php-editors.

Features Summary

• Full-featured drag & drop enabled editor.
• Real-time syntax highlighter with the ability to customize colors and font styles to make it easier to read code. Maintain multiple colorizer views and/or highlight only specific parts of code, such as text, tags, comments, scripts, strings, ASP, etc. Includes language-level color coding support for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS / XLS / XSLT Style Sheets, JavaScript / JScript / LiveWire, VBScript / Visual Basic, ASP, PHP, Perl, iHTML, Java, Python, C/C++, .NET C#, Delphi / Pascal, INI, and IE 5 conditional HTML files with customizable file extensions. Coloring of JSP blocks is also supported.
• Unlimited regular and block-level undo/redo, with the ability to step forward and backward through the evolution of a document in real-time. Optionally undo after saving a file.
• Edit multiple documents with the ability to easily switch between the files using the Task Bar, or view multiple files at the same time.
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts with the ability to create new keyboard commands by combining multiple built-in commands.
• Line numbering and the ability to quickly go to absolute and relative line numbers.
• Custom tab stop, smart tab and optimal fill options.
• Reveal hidden characters.
• Right margin indicator, track column and constrain cursor to the text or move beyond end-of-lines.
• Auto word wrapping, wrapped line status in the gutter area, word wrap column indicator and display-only soft wrapping to easily edit files with long lines without breaking lines in the original file.
• Auto/manual block indenting.
• Yellow-marker-like text highlighters to easily mark important sections in the code.
• Print preview or print the complete or partial document, optionally with line numbers, word wrapping and color syntax highlighting.
• Save in Windows/DOS or UNIX text file formats.
• Auto backup files by appending a new extension or by making a copy in another folder.
• Auto save documents every X number of minutes.
• Mouse wheel support with the ability to scroll one, multiple or page full of lines at once.
• Use the customizable Auto Complete feature with cursor control to reduce the amount of typing required, or completely disable it. Easier to remember than macros and blends in easily with the regular editing process.
• Extendable spell checker with multiple main and user dictionaries. Able to highlight spelling errors as you type (live spelling) or check spelling on demand. Optional thesaurus for creating professional documents.

Syntax highlighting

As of version 292, HTML-Kit supports syntax highlighting for the following languages:

• HTML
• Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)
• Extensible Markup Language (XML)
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
• Visual Basic (VB)
• Visual Basic Script Edition (VBScript)
• PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)
• Perl
• Python
• RUBY
• C/C++
• C#
• Pascal
• Lisp
• SQL
• Active Server Pages (ASP)
• Java
• JavaScript
• JavaServer Pages (JSP)

and more

See also

• List of HTML editors
• Comparison of HTML editors
• Comparison of WYSIWYG HTML editors
• Web application
• Tidy

External links

• HTML-Kit official site

• Review and Download from download.com
• Review and Features Description
• Review at php-editors.com

• Tutorial:Improved Web Development using HTML-Kit at devarticles.com

• Tidy