Notepad++ is an excellent, free and simple text editor that is quick to get running. It’s great for HTML, CSS, PHP and much more…Notepad++ is an excellent, free and simple text editor that is quick to get running. It’s great for HTML, CSS, and PHP (and much more).  It is an ideal editor to use in lieu of starting a large IDE.  Notepad++ has many features and user supported plugins that can be installed to extend the editor, so you only use what you need. When we need to do quick edits this is the tool.

Features Include:

• Syntax Highlighting
• Auto-Completion
• Multi-view
• Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
• ++ More…

Plugins Include:

• Color Picker
• Compare Plugin – gives a diff of 2 docs.
• FTP support
• Function Lists
• ++ More…