⚡ HTML Editors

HTML editors are software tools used to create and edit web pages by writing and modifying HTML, CSS, and other web code.

Their typical features include syntax highlighting, code completion, file management, and sometimes WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) visual design.

According to our research, HTML editors are detected on 0.8% of all websites.
98.6% of these sites use only one HTML editor, 1.4% use two.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading HTML editors in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Adobe DreamWeaver, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 55.9% share.
It is followed by Microsoft FrontPage with 18.1% and MSHTML with 4.6%.

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of editors that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

✨ Best HTML Editors

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 41 HTML editors we detect, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
Adobe DreamWeaver
San Jose, California, United States

A proprietary WYSIWYG editor from Adobe that provides both visual design tools and full source-code editing for building websites.

$263.88+/year
2
Microsoft FrontPage
Redmond, Washington, United States

A WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool that was part of Microsoft Office until it was discontinued in 2003.

$149Legacy
3
MSHTML
Redmond, Washington, United States

An editor based on the MSHTML component of the discontinued Internet Explorer browser.

Legacy
4
Microsoft Word
Redmond, Washington, United States

A word processing program included in Microsoft Office.

5
iWeb
Cupertino, California, United States

A WYSIWYG template-based website building tool that had been released by Apple Inc.

Legacy
6
IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder
Armonk, New York, United States

A WYSIWYG HTML editor for Windows and Linux that was available until the mid-2000s.

Legacy
7
Adobe GoLive
San Jose, California, United States

A WYSIWYG HTML editor that was discontinued in 2008.

$299Legacy
8
Siquando
Bonn, Germany

A German website and e-shop builder software for Windows.

€299+
9
Visual Studio
Redmond, Washington, United States

An integrated development environment developed by Microsoft.

Free$45+/month
10
Adobe PageMill
San Jose, California, United States

A legacy WYSIWYG HTML editor that was discontinued in favor of GoLive.

$149Legacy
11
Namo WebEditor
Korea

A legacy WYSIWYG HTML editor that was discontinued in 2011.

Legacy
12
WYSIWYG Web Builder
Anderson, Texas, United States

A website builder for Windows that helps you design and build full-featured websites without having to learn HTML.

$59.95+
13
Bluefish
Netherlands

A powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers, with many options to write websites, scripts, and programming code.

FreeOpen source
14
OpenOffice
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

A free, open-source office productivity suite for creating and editing text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, databases, and formulas, now distributed under the name Apache OpenOffice.

FreeOpen source
15
BBEdit

A proprietary HTML and text editor for macOS.

$59.99
16
Claris Home Page
Cupertino, California, United States

A WYSIWYG HTML editor that was discontinued in 2001.

Legacy
17
EditPlus
Jinju-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea

A text editor with syntax highlighting, hex viewer, HTML toolbar, FTP support and more.

$35
18
TOWeb
Rambouillet, France

A website and e-shop builder software for Windows and macOS.

Free€99+
19
PSPad
Czech Republic

A freeware programmer's editor for the Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Free
20
🔥 HoTMetaL
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

A legacy WYSIWYG HTML editor that was sold to Corel and discontinued in 2002.

Legacy
21
Yahoo! SiteBuilder
New York, United States

A WYSIWYG website building application that was discontinued in 2021.

Legacy
22
Notepad++
Paris, France

A free source code editor for Windows that supports about 90 programming languages with syntax highlighting and code folding.

FreeOpen source
23
CoffeeCup HTML Editor
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

A full-featured web design tool for Windows with handy tag references, code completion, website components that update instantly across all pages, and live previews.

$29
24
LibreOffice
Berlin, Germany

A free and open‑source office productivity suite derived from OpenOffice.org that provides users with tools for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, databases, and formula editing.

FreeOpen source
25
📝 Bootply

A playground for Bootstrap that allows you to edit HTML, JavaScript and CSS code.

Data is based on the analysis of 3,320,618 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.