Is CSSEdit the best CSS editor yet?
The fantastic Macheist bundle that has recently closed, offered up a few gems, but for me the biggest shiniest one of them all is CSSEdit.
How cool is this program? I’m one of those CSS people that likes to use notepad (although more recently Textmate), I know how I want to do things and I don’t really need any frills. I’ve always found CSS editors didn’t form the styles in the way that I intended or just didn’t give me the formatting that I prefer.
CSSEdit on the other hand pretty much reads my mind… If I want margin-right:1em; - Cool no worries, If I decide that it should be margin:0 1em 0 0; - Cool, it does that too.
The biggest thing for me though is the grouping.
When creating stylesheets for sites, I’m loathe to create lots of different “file sheets”, despite it being easier to manage. CSSEdit has rescued me from this with its “groups”. I can just select some code, group it, and collapse or expand it from the left hand sidebar. This forces the kind of modularisation that I love and encourages code reuse…
I’d just like to say, thank you to Macrabbit and Macheist for such a great bit of software.
Comments
Keir
said on 31 January 2008Best I try this then, eh?
mikek
said on 15 February 2008if you don’t already, try the textmate for osx. it does a grand job of css editing and has made my cssedit redundant.
http://macromates.com/
Mark
said on 16 February 2008Yeh, I love Textmate, but CSSedit has managed to sway me over, I spend a lot of time on CSS and I would say that CSSedit has actually started to save me time now over something like Textmate.
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