⚡ 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 2.3% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 201K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 79.1% share.
It is followed by IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder with 14% and Microsoft FrontPage with 2.4%.

Adobe DreamWeaver 79.1%
IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder 14%
Microsoft FrontPage 2.4%
Adobe GoLive 2.2%
MSHTML 1.1%
Adobe PageMill 0.6%
Microsoft Word 0.5%
iWeb 0.5%
Claris Home Page 0.4%
Visual Studio 0.3%
Google Web Designer 0.1%
OpenOffice 0.07%
Emacs 0.04%
EditPlus 0.04%
Bluefish 0.04%

🚀 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 ^(-3)
4. Adobe GoLive ^(-3)
6. Adobe PageMill ^(-4)
9. Claris Home Page ^(-7)
11. Google Web Designer ^(-16)
12. OpenOffice ^(-2)
13. Emacs ^(-23)
14. EditPlus ^(-3)
16. LibreOffice ^(-8)
17. Pinegrow ^(-11)

✨ Best HTML Editors

Below is a more detailed list of 22 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	79.1%
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	14%
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	2.4%
4	Adobe GoLive San Jose, California, United States A WYSIWYG HTML editor that was discontinued in 2008. $299Legacy	2.2%
5	MSHTML Redmond, Washington, United States An editor based on the MSHTML component of the discontinued Internet Explorer browser. Legacy	1.1%
6	Adobe PageMill San Jose, California, United States A legacy WYSIWYG HTML editor that was discontinued in favor of GoLive. $149Legacy	0.6%
7	Microsoft Word Redmond, Washington, United States A word processing program developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 suites for creating, editing, and formatting text documents.	0.5%
8	iWeb Cupertino, California, United States A WYSIWYG template-based website building tool that had been released by Apple Inc. from 2006 to 2011. Legacy	0.5%
9	Claris Home Page Cupertino, California, United States A WYSIWYG HTML editor that was discontinued in 2001. Legacy	0.4%
10	Visual Studio Redmond, Washington, United States An integrated development environment for Windows developed by Microsoft for building desktop, web, cloud, and mobile applications in multiple programming languages. Free$45+/month	0.3%
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	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	0.07%
13	Emacs Boston, Massachusetts, United States A fully programmable text editor available for most modern operating systems. FreeOpen source	0.04%
14	EditPlus Jinju-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea A text editor with syntax highlighting, hex viewer, HTML toolbar, FTP support and more. $35	0.04%
15	Bluefish Netherlands A powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers, with many options to write websites, scripts, and programming code. FreeOpen source	0.04%
16	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%
17	Pinegrow A cross-platform visual HTML & CSS editor. $149+	0.02%
18	Namo WebEditor Korea A legacy WYSIWYG HTML editor that was discontinued in 2011. Legacy	0.02%
19	RocketCake Neulengbach, Austria A free responsive WYSIWYG website builder for Windows and macOS. Free€49	0.02%
20	📝 Bootply A playground for Bootstrap that allows you to edit HTML, JavaScript and CSS code.	0.02%
21	Vim Netherlands A free and open-source, highly configurable text editor for geeks that works from the command line or a graphical user interface. FreeOpen source	0.02%
22	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

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 201,040 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 41 HTML editors across the web.
Of these, 22 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on September 19, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.