Its not always required to use a paid or shareware version of HTML editor as you will find many free HTML editors that will server your purpose well. Here is the list of best free HTML editors.
Nvu
Nvu is a very powerful open source WYSIWYG HTML editor which is really user friendly and flexible to use. Nvu supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It has some excellent features including:
- WYSIWYG file editor
- Multiple file editing tabs
- CSS editing support
- Integrated FTP feature
- Spell checker function
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HTML-Kit
HTML-Kit is another great HTML editor for windows. It supports HTML, XML and scripts authoring. Editing, formatting, validating, previewing and publishing the pages are much more easier than anything else with this excellent free tool.
- Local and remote files can be edited and saved easily
- Color coding support of almost all scripting languages such as HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, PHP, Perl, Java, Python, C/C++, Pascal
- Spell cheker integrated
- Preview on the fly
- Validation of documents for W3C’s HTML Tidy
- Automatic code corrections
- Context sesitive help system
- Quick preview on external browsers such as IE, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape
