Balancing innovation against deadlines » css http://www.aaronheld.com because work and life have hard deadlines..... Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:25:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Netbeans for HTML-CSS work? http://www.aaronheld.com/post/netbeans-for-html-css-work http://www.aaronheld.com/post/netbeans-for-html-css-work#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:42:12 +0000 Aaron http://www.aaronheld.com/?p=100 Due to an unfortunate series of work related events I find myself writing php code.  Not only php code, but wordpress php code.  That however is the topic of a later post (as is plugins that edit core code using regex based searches)

I did the work in textmate but decided to spin up my new Netbeans 6.5 in order to test the subversion functionality.

Immediately I noticed that Netbeans picked up a tag mismatch and highlighted it nicely:

Netbeans showing off a tag mismatch

Netbeans showing off a tag mismatch

This was enough to impress me and I did a quick google to find netbeans other HTML / Front-end features.

It now has a nice CSS editor that is comparable to some of the tools I fondly remember from 5 years ago.  The preview and menu driven selectors are easy to work with.  I'd rather have a better code completion like Firebug, but this effort is great to see from a Java dev tool.

Netbeans CSS editor

Netbeans CSS editor

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