Free/Open-Source WYSIWYG HTML editors

[svivian]

Most of the time I use a text editor to write my HTML/CSS code (especially since it's normally interspersed with PHP code). But I like to use a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) for certain things, such as writing longer passages of text in paragraphs, composing tables, and so on.

 

I've previously 'obtained' copies of Microsoft FrontPage (and the newer version, 'Expression Web'), which are quite good. But I always prefer freeware/open source software for several reasons (particularly, regular updates and good community behind it). I took a look at the Wikipedia category and it looks like the following are the best ones:

 

Nvu

I tried this but one simple thing annoyed me - it's difficult to make simple paragraphs! You choose 'Paragraph' from the drop down menu but it keeps changing back to 'Body text' which separates lines with br tag, not p tags. Also I think development has ceased.

 

KompoZer

Continuation of Nvu, still in early stages.

 

SeaMonkey

Previously Mozilla Composer/Internet Suite. Haven't used this, but seems a little heavyweight since it comes with a crop of other programs included.

 

Has anyone else used these? What do you think of them? Are there other great ones I've missed out?

[AndyB]

http://www.evrsoft.com/

 

The free version allows you to choose normal, easy, expert, or hard core, with or without view (split screen).  I've used it for years and it works well

[Johnson]

Nvu is a nice program, I've used it before. It's multiplatformed as well.