What do you use for writing HTML by hand?

[specter@board.minimally.online]

my hands

[behindthebarrier@programming.dev]

The following isn't any professional advice or anything, I am writing HTML manually for my hobby blog code. I don't have much experience with HTML outside occasionally reading it.

I write a bit by hand, to layout my blog page, which is using HTMX. Generally I use RustRover since that actually gives details for attributes and such along with autocomplete. And apparently yesterday it asked if I wanted to enable HTMX support, which was even more intriguing. The main articles are however converted from markdown to HTML.

I do want a better way to design with preview of my page but I think it's a long shot to find something that does HTMX at the same time. Especially since that often means having segregated pieces of HTML mixed into one document at page loading.

[greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml]

+1 for htmx

RustRover feels quite heavy/bulky, why not Fleet/Zed assuming you've checked those out?

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

Kwrite/Kate. Auto-closing tags and all.

[popcar2@programming.dev]

I appreciate the rundown! I started getting used to Emmet now, it's certainly more friendly than it looks. I think this is what I was looking for.

The short-hand for CSS in Emmet is also pretty neat, but It'll take some time to get used to it. w75p m10 turns into width: 75%; margin:10px

[behindthebarrier@programming.dev]

I'm still a windows pleb, so no Zed for me. Fleet I haven't heard of before.

I'm also very much one that likes a lot of convenience. RustRover is know from experience with both pycharm and Rider. But my main points are convenient functionality, autocomplete, debugger, code navigation, formatting and cleanup and git diff readily available. RustRover might be big and heavy, but it let's me focus on writing and running my code without much issues.

[greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml]

still a windows pleb, so no Zed for me

oh, ok

Fleet I haven't heard of before

It is Jetbrains newest thing, an all language ide, an answer to VsCodium and Zed I guess, it's still stuck in beta though

I understand your points about convenience and experience though

[spartanatreyu@programming.dev]

I would advise against using pixels for margin/padding since it'll have issues for users who have different zoom/text sizes than you do.

Stick to rem for margin and padding.

If you're still early days with css, it's worth pointing out that you should use a "css reset" file. It will solve problems for you that you don't even know exist yet.

[communism@lemmy.ml]

I just write everything in vim, including raw html.

Not sure what your use case is, but if it's a static website you'd probably want a static site generator so you can write in markdown and then also include raw html for things that markdown can't represent.

[zoop@beehaw.org]

I'm not the person you were saying this to, but thank you for this! I'm a super-noob, sort of learning as I go by trying different things as I make my cat a webpage for shits and giggles, and you gave me some helpful stuff to try and look into. I appreciate it!

[ulterno@programming.dev]

A keyboard.

Kate

[3h5hne7t1k@lemmy.world]

Man kate is such a banger.

[towerful@programming.dev]

KDE do a lot of good software

[ulterno@programming.dev]

man kate is such a banger.