2012年2月24日星期五

Eclipse plugin for HTML WYSIWYG editor - Stack Overflow

Eclipse plugin for HTML WYSIWYG editor - Stack Overflow


Since this is currently (2011-10-25) at 2nd place in Google for a "Eclipse HTML WYSIWYG" query and the question linked by Rafa de Castro dont give a complete answer, I feel that this question needs an update.


For now, the only available WYSIWYG tools for HTML I found are:

  • WTP JavaServer Faces contains a tool named Web Page Editor. Nice, free and also serves as a visual editor.
  • JBoss Tools HTML Editor is also free, neat, has two preview modes, but provides only simplest visual editing functionality.
  • Eclipse Visual Designer shipped with MyEclipse. It can even preview pages in IE/Firefox, but it has a huge disadvantage - it's a payed software. Looks awesome, but I didnt try it, so I can't say anything about quality.

A note about intsallation.

Installing something into Eclipse is sometimes a pain, especially for a new user.

So, if you want to install just an HTML editor from WTP or JBoss without installing the whole thing with it, you can do the following (steps are vadid at least for Eclipse 3.6 and 3.7.):

  • Open Eclipse, select Help / Install New Software.
  • In the Work with: field input the update site address.

For JBoss Tools:

  • Get the update site URL for the appropirate Eclipse version from here
  • Select JBoss Tool RichFaces.

For Web Pages Editor

  • Use an already existing update site, that look like http://download.eclipse.org/releases/
  • Select Web Pages Editor.

Now press Next and prepare to wait for eternity. (You can speed up this process by disabling Contact all update sites during install checkbox)

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