I have always used Dreamweaver, and love it. But, I have been thinking, what are the FREE CSS editors like? So I went looking , first one I found was TopStyle Lite, it was OK, nothing special, and then tried some others.
It did get me thinking, Which is the best FREE CSS Editor available? So, over to you, what do you think?

I have listed 7 Free CSS Editors to help with your choice. If I have missed any, write a comment and I’ll add it to the list.

Vote at the bottom of the Article.

Simple CSS

Features :Simple CSS allows you to easily create Cascading Style Sheets from scratch, and/or modify existing ones, using a familiar point-and-click interface. Compatabile with Mac, Windows and Linux.
Download: Simple CSS Download Page.

TS Webeditor (tswebeditor)

Features :tsWebEditor is an editor for HTML, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, CSS and many other languages. It displays the source code colored (syntax highlight), code hint for functions, code completion (PHP, JavaScript, ASP, HTML), code browser, PHP debugger and syntax validation, help, CSS wizard, HTML tag editor, HTML syntax validation, and an easy to use SQL Designer. To view all features click here.
Download: TS Webeditor Download Page.

A Style CSS Editor

Features :Visual easy-to-use interface ; Graphic tree-type view of attachment files and the CSS structure ; Grouped view of properties and selectors ; Automatic selection and grouping of CSS selectors from a markup language document ; Source CSS, HTML, XML highlight code editor ; Active preview current selectors and documents with IE and Mozilla support ; Clean up HTML document via CSS ; Icon associate dictionary ; Copy, Paste and Cut operations ; Drag and Drop operations…
Download: A Style CSS Editor Download Page.

CSSED - “A GTK-2 CSS Editor”

Features :It features syntax highlighting, syntax validation, MDI notebook based interface, quick CSS properties and values insertion, auto-completion and dialog-based insertion of CSS complex values.
Being a CSS editor, its not limited to this language. CSSED haved some support for HTML (with embbeded Javascript), XML, Javascript, Java, PHP, JSP, C, C++, Apache configuration files, .htaccess, Python, Perl, SQL, SH and other languages so it can serve quite well as multi-purpose editor.
Download: CSSED Download Page.

ELEDO - Eledicss

Features :Eledicss is a CSS2 editor (GPL licensed) implemented as a server-side PHP script. It allows editing CSS files using a web browser.
It can be installed both on UNIX and Windows webservers. It was tested on PHP 4.1.2 on server side, and Mozilla 1.0 on client side. Eledicss should safetly work on all PHP 4.X versions.
Download: ELEDO Download Page.

JustStyle CSS Editor

Features :JustStyle CSS Editor is full-featured, yet easy-to-use, software for webmasters. It is a specialized style sheets development environment, featuring everything needed to develop and deploy cascade style sheets. JustStyle CSS Editor provides an interactive user interface and presents CSS properties in special wizards and generic value lists.
Written entirely in Java, it works on different platforms, such as Microsoft Windows, IBM OS/2, Linux, Apple Mac OS, Mac OS X and others.
Download: JustStyle CSS Editor Download Page.

TopStyle Lite

Features :Click here to read the differences between TopStyle Pro and TopStyle Lite. This small freeware version still has plenty of power for most CSS editing.
Download: TopStyle Lite Download Page.

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27 Comments so far

1. Tobi on September 15, 2008 1:43 am

   Notepad++ is my tool for all: PHP/HTML/CSS/Java/C/C++ etc. and I’m really pleased with it!

2. NetPuter on September 15, 2008 1:48 am

   Haven’t try it yet..

3. Ronildo Costa on September 15, 2008 3:00 am

   I prefer use Aptana, its a wonderfull IDE.

4. dario on September 15, 2008 6:44 am

   Coda, IMHO, is my choice.

5. aravind on September 16, 2008 3:16 am

   you missed one of the best.. CODA 1.5

6. jackcheez on September 16, 2008 6:18 am

   I second Aptana, it rocks for CSS.

7. Convoluted on September 16, 2008 8:20 pm

   What about firebug?

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9. stov on September 23, 2008 7:52 am

   I really happy with PSPad. Just ctrl+space and you have auto-completion for many languages. I tried Aptana wich is great for PHP, but is not such a big deal for CSS in my opinion.
   I’m quite interested in TS Webeditor. I’m gona try it right know and give you some feed back.
   I hope to see the result of this test. Great idea. thx

10. andrej on October 2, 2008 6:42 am

    firebug

11. Andy Ford on October 2, 2008 7:00 am

    It’s not free, but on Mac CSSEdit is definitely worth the 30 Euros. On Windows, all my coding is handled in Notepad++ (free).

12. munky on October 2, 2008 8:33 am

    PSPad for everything (PHP, JavaScript, CSS, XHTML)

13. Lonny on October 2, 2008 9:47 pm

    I’m using eclipse and the WTP for web development. It’s of cause really heavy weight, but it features good editors (syntax highlighting, outline view, code completion, code templates, code folding) and useful things like a svn plugin (do you use a version control system?)

14. glucko on October 25, 2008 9:58 am

    Notepad ++ for Windows is one of the best for everything, but the best css editors without any doubt are only for mac OSX: Coda, CSSEdit (the best) and Textmate. These are just awesome!

15. Riyan on November 6, 2008 11:59 pm

    wow…. thats all is good thank for the information

16. Googooboyy on November 16, 2008 7:19 pm

    Honestly, none matched up to my expectations. The one with promise of potential, and of note, was JustStyle CSS Editor. I’d like to see the Author improve upon it, or somone taking over the project and expanding it, while maintaining the easy to use interface.

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