Jelle Druyts

As a proof-of-concept for the HtmlEditbox control in my just released Tools Library 1.2, and also because I really like having a light-weight html editor around, I wrote a little HtmlEditor application that's capable of editing html documents in a WYSIWYG fashion with only a few but all (hopefully) functional features:

• Most standard features you find in basic html editors: text formatting, coloring, alignment, lists, indenting, hyperlinks, ...
• Traditional file support (New, Open, Save, Save As) with proper change tracking and a prompt to save the file if and only if there are changes when you attempt to close it.
• Open From Url: opens an html page which is directly downloaded from a Url.
• View Modes: view and edit the html as raw text, in WYSIWYG mode, or as a non-editable preview of the result.
• Clean: rids the html of redundant tags - specifically the   tags that drive me mad.
• Commands: allows the current selection to be surrounded by user-defined html tags, e.g. to quickly make the selection a <h1> or <pre> block (the list of commands can be customized in the configuration file).

Most of these features are supported directly in the reusable HtmlEditbox control, the application is basically just a wrapper around it with support for files and menus. Check out the screenshot below:

You can download the tool below. Don't hesitate to contact me for suggestions or bug reports!

The JelleDruyts.HtmlEditor 1.0 executable, without Mshtml (125,01 KB)
The JelleDruyts.HtmlEditor 1.0 executable, with Mshtml (1,69 MB)
The JelleDruyts.HtmlEditor 1.0 executable and source code, with Mshtml (3,39 MB)