Programming

A keyboard.

Kate

vim

my hands

I just write everything in vim, including raw html.

Not sure what your use case is, but if it's a static website you'd probably want a static site generator so you can write in markdown and then also include raw html for things that markdown can't represent.

Hands

vscode with the built-in Emmet support.

Emmet isn't intimidating, unless you don't know CSS, in which case it is extremely intimidating.

a+b:
<a href=""></a><b></b>

a>b:
<a href=""><b></b></a>

a*2:
<a href=""></a><a href=""></a>

div.yeet:
<div class="yeet"></div>

A combination:
a>b+i*2.dollah:
<a href=""><b></b><i class="dollah"></i><i class="dollah"></i></a>

That's 99% of what you need to know to get started with Emmet.

Anyway, I used to write 100% hand-written HTML, but switched to using Hugo because: Go's built-in Templating language I knew from working with K8S, build-times are sub-second, and I can write a page in either Markdown or HTML, whichever I need (or even mix in some HTML in the Markdown!)

Because of hugo I don't need to mess around with repeating parts (like the nav menu).

Only downsides:

• it strips the comments, which I would've loved to leave in for people to read
• the formatting is my favorite, so I format with prettier before committing

I use git submodules to have the public/ folder be my Github Pages host repo, so I can just muck about locally, while I do a rebuild (which changes the files in the submodule). Only after a commit, I'll effectively publish the website.

Check out the website (mostly for the HTML - the articles are... meh): https://Thaumatorium.com (no trackers, so no Cookiewall nonsense either :D)

I bit the bullet and bought the Jetbrains Ultimate bundle because I develop in lots of different languages. It includes WebStorm and it is a joy to use. It helps where necessary and doesn't get in my way..

I use Vim, but I don't really write pure HTML. I write Markdown and convert it into HTML as needed.

Markdown covers 95% of my HTML use cases, and I embed pure HTML into the Markdown for the last 5%.

My Markdown tools (mostly command line utilities such as Pandoc) handle HTML inside Markdown quite nicely. A few need a special "hey, there's HTML in here, pass it through unchanged" command line flag, if I recall correctly.

In a few advanced cases I'll use a variant of Jinja2 template syntax, and convert that into HTML - often with some converted Markdown mixed into it at build time.

The following isn't any professional advice or anything, I am writing HTML manually for my hobby blog code. I don't have much experience with HTML outside occasionally reading it.

I write a bit by hand, to layout my blog page, which is using HTMX. Generally I use RustRover since that actually gives details for attributes and such along with autocomplete. And apparently yesterday it asked if I wanted to enable HTMX support, which was even more intriguing. The main articles are however converted from markdown to HTML.

I do want a better way to design with preview of my page but I think it's a long shot to find something that does HTMX at the same time. Especially since that often means having segregated pieces of HTML mixed into one document at page loading.

usually, calibre's ebook editor, but that's cause most of my html writing and editing is to make epubs.

Depends on context, but

• Notepad++
• Visual Studio
• Visual Studio Code
• Double Commander "quick"-editor
• vim
• micro
• Firefox dev tools (console, dom edit)

When I write HTML, I don't use IDE features but accept them in Visual Studio.

Notepad++

Thr nice thing about Emmet is you can use what you know and slowly add on to it. I don't really use the CSS shortcuts. It's really useful for writing HTML that requires a lot of elements.