⚡ HTML Editors in Japan

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

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our research, HTML editors are detected on 2.7% of websites from Japan.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Adobe DreamWeaver, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 73.9% share.
It is followed by IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder with 16.7% and Microsoft FrontPage with 3.1%.

Adobe DreamWeaver 73.9%
IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder 16.7%
Microsoft FrontPage 3.1%
Adobe GoLive 3%
MSHTML 1.5%
iWeb 0.8%
Adobe PageMill 0.8%
Microsoft Word 0.6%
Claris Home Page 0.5%
Visual Studio 0.2%
Google Web Designer 0.1%
Bluefish 0.07%
EditPlus 0.07%
OpenOffice 0.05%
📝 Bootply 0.05%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top editors that are more popular in Japan than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

2. IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder ^(-4)
4. Adobe GoLive ^(-3)
7. Adobe PageMill ^(-3)
9. Claris Home Page ^(-7)
11. Google Web Designer ^(-16)
12. Bluefish ^(-1)
13. EditPlus ^(-4)
15. 📝 Bootply ^(-10)
16. Geany ^(-18)
17. Emacs ^(-20)

✨ Best HTML Editors

Below is a more detailed list of 21 HTML editors used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market 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	73.9%
2	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	16.7%
3	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	3.1%
4	Adobe GoLive San Jose, California, United States A WYSIWYG HTML editor that was discontinued in 2008. $299Legacy	3%
5	MSHTML Redmond, Washington, United States An editor based on the MSHTML component of the discontinued Internet Explorer browser. Legacy	1.5%
6	iWeb Cupertino, California, United States A WYSIWYG template-based website building tool that had been released by Apple Inc. Legacy	0.8%
7	Adobe PageMill San Jose, California, United States A legacy WYSIWYG HTML editor that was discontinued in favor of GoLive. $149Legacy	0.8%
8	Microsoft Word Redmond, Washington, United States A word processing program included in Microsoft Office.	0.6%
9	Claris Home Page Cupertino, California, United States A WYSIWYG HTML editor that was discontinued in 2001. Legacy	0.5%
10	Visual Studio Redmond, Washington, United States An integrated development environment developed by Microsoft. Free$45+/month	0.2%
11	Google Web Designer Mountain View, California, United States A drag-and-drop page builder for Windows, Mac and Linux from Google. Free	0.1%
12	Bluefish Netherlands A powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers, with many options to write websites, scripts, and programming code. FreeOpen source	0.07%
13	EditPlus Jinju-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea A text editor with syntax highlighting, hex viewer, HTML toolbar, FTP support and more. $35	0.07%
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	0.05%
15	📝 Bootply A playground for Bootstrap that allows you to edit HTML, JavaScript and CSS code.	0.05%
16	Geany Stendal, Germany A cross-platform, open-source, lightweight integrated development environment with built-in support for more than 50 programming languages. FreeOpen source	0.02%
17	Emacs Boston, Massachusetts, United States A fully programmable text editor available for most modern operating systems. FreeOpen source	0.02%
18	Pinegrow A cross-platform visual HTML & CSS editor. $149+	0.02%
19	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	0.02%
20	Visual Studio Code Redmond, Washington, United States A cross-platform integrated development environment developed by Microsoft. FreeOpen source	0.02%
21	Codeply An online editor that includes dozens of frameworks, starter templates, and over 50,000 code snippets.	0.02%

👉 See Also

🌎 HTML Editors in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 157,205 websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.