Free newbiefriendly HTML editors

Any good ones out there that gives "clean" HTML output?

[Wertigon]

Hi, I have a friend of mine whom is having a bit of trouble learning HTML - he just needs something that helps him understand HTML better. Thing is, I do all my work in notepad, and thus have no experience in that field.

I tried Google, but it didn't give much... So are there any good newbiefriendly HTML editors out there which gives a "clean" (no code bloat) output in HTML? Free preferably.

[Sinner_G]

Well, Macromedia has a free trial for Dreamweaver (not sure for how long though). Although it does bloat the code a bit, IMHO it is the best of the WYSIWYG editors out there.

[Wertigon]

Okay... Well, after some thought and trying around he decided on Mozilla Composer - It works and gives reasonable output according to him, and he just wants something simple that lets him produce a homepage (yes, he would still be using Word if I hadn't showed how bad the HTML output is... =P)

But Moz Composer do have some serious output issues... For example, italics are coded like <span style="font-style:italics;"> instead of the (much shorter and sensible) <i>. Anyone knows where I can find a script which fixes that?

[BlobFisk]

Well, <i> is deprecated - although <em> is an alternative.

My advice would be to read the online HTML tutorials and work with a text editor. No bloat at all that way!