Any decent free JQuery mobile/CSS editor?

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Hi

as the title says is there a good editor?

i am currently using Dreamweaver and it is not really great for building UI's and creating and editing CSS styles on the fly like you can do in the android framework using eclipse IDE to drag, drop and position the ui components and access its properties like margins etc.

I tend to have to manually track down the css tag from the default jquery mobile css i use just to tweak the margins of say a field content or a button.

It is such a pain to do so and taking too much time and so i am wondering if there is a better alternative to allow me to drag, drop and position jquery mobile ui components and set its style and properties easily without digging into the css style code itself.

Maybe i am not using Dreamweaver properly? only started playing with it the other day.

Thanks

[TheAnimus]

It's more that JQuery and such are a mess of frameworks.

Making a 'simple' HTML site for me now entails:

JQuery
NockoutJS
SignalR
Bootstrap

Then trying to tie all that together, any chance of an IDE is long gone, due to all the rendering engines having different ideas as to how it should be.

HTML5 + CSS is a lot of crap.

[bytejunkie]

you;re not asking for an IDE, you're asking for a wysiwyg editor and you're already using the best one.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

It's more that JQuery and such are a mess of frameworks.

Making a 'simple' HTML site for me now entails:

JQuery
NockoutJS
SignalR
Bootstrap

Then trying to tie all that together, any chance of an IDE is long gone, due to all the rendering engines having different ideas as to how it should be.

HTML5 + CSS is a lot of crap.

It really is a mess! That is why i am wondering if there is an easy IDE or something to use it!

[bytejunkie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_(software)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaya_(web_editor)

[finlay666]

Only other one I would suggest is Visual Studio express as there is a lot of improvements to the web support now, the Web version should be free still. There are some pretty good features like being able to cross browser test easily, editing DOM in debug (so you can debug in both browser and IDE) and there is fairly good JS intellisense when it's configured

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudi...ct-express-web

The 2013 version will have more but I've not had a chance to use it yet
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudi...t-2013-summary

[j.o.s.h.1408]

im using a mac

[bytejunkie]

then you need to checkout coda, which is chargable, but its by far the best piece of software for coding webpages. its not a wysiwyg editor. notable mention to textmate, beloved by many mac users.

[sp3n]

sounds like webflow fits what you are looking for: http://www.webflow.com/
they have a demo which you can try, maybe try contacting them to get involved with the beta

[finlay666]

Parallels, about 1/3 of the devs at my place have macs and still work with MS Tooling as we work with the tech

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Paral...-Studio-on-OSX


Eclipse is a bloated POS and would avoid at all costs

Other option is maybe Xamarin Studio? It probably won't be as feataure rich as VS (from what I use) but directhex would be the person to ask about that