An old fashioned desktop WYSIWIG HTML editor

I want to edit some standalone HTML files

[graeme_p]

This is so old fashioned that it turns out that the forum i was looking for to ask it in is deprecated! In fact its the first time I noticed the Webmaster World has deprecated forums!

I want edit some standalone HTML files WYSIWIG without breaking their existing CSS or anything like that. The bits I need to edit are pretty simple HTML. A text editor works but feels clunky when editing anything more than a very short bit of text.

The only thing I could find still maintained was Seamonkey which seems a bit of a heavy solution for this. Does anything else (that will run on Linux) still exist.

[Martin Potter]

And I am sure that you don't want any AI doing it for you. ;-)

[edited by: Martin_Potter at 12:20 am (utc) on Sep 15, 2026]

[Martin Potter]

I use Bluefish. It is open-source, free, runs under Linux, is well supported, and (for me) works very well. Has lots of tools and features to make repetitive and other tasks easier when editing HTML and CSS. But you have total control and can still edit the file any way you want. I recommend it.

Sorry - Have never used Seamonkey so can't offer any comparisons.