Magic HTML Writer

User's Manual / Features

• Full featured text editing in a state-of-the-art Windows environment.
• Multiple document support.
  • Additional instances of Magic HTML Writer pass their document to the first instance and close, thus keeping only one version of Magic HTML Writer running at any one time.
• User options...
  • Choice of font used in edit windows.
  • Choice of any 3 browsers used to open and view the current document, including option to use http://localhost when running a local web server (such as Personal Web Server).
  • Custom Markups.
  • Choice of simple file name or full path displayed in title bars.
  • Option to open a new document with or without a simple HTML template.
  • Option to place single or double quotes around inserted values.
  • Option to associate files (.htm, .html, .shtml, .js, .asp, .asa, .php, .css, .inc, and .txt) with Magic HTML Writer, producing the line "Edit with Magic HTML Writer" on the context popup menu when the file is right-clicked.
  • Recent file list may be turned on or off.
• Auto-insertion of most of the HTML 4.0 markups.
• Many useful hot keys.
• An HTML removal tool.
• Auto-insertion of a large selection of character entity references (such as © for ©) and unicode characters.
• Meta tag support.
  • Author, Description, Generator, Keywords, No Cache, and Refresh statement builders.
• Table building tools.
• Javascript stubs and coding features.
  • Script and function stubs.
  • Javascript coding tools...
    • Conversion of text and code to Javascript write and writeln statements.
    • An Open Window Code Generator.
    • An Include Source File Code Generator.
• Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) stubs and coding features.
  • Style and Class stubs.
  • Style Sheet Linking Tool.
  • CSS building tools, conveniently grouped by...
    • Fonts and Text
    • Body and Background
    • Box Properties
    • Lists
    • Positioning
    • Printing
    • Scrollbars
• Handy HTML coding tools...
  • Insertion of date and/or time in four formats (including Javascript and Notepad).
  • A built-in color tool.
  • A color viewing tool (that reads a 6-character hex-color in your code and displays it--very handy for revising older documents).
  • A "Goto Line..." tool, ideal for pinpointing Javascript and ASP coding errors.
  • A font tag creation tool.
  • An image tag creation tool...
    • allows image selection using a built-in image browser.
    • automatically reads the width and height of GIF and JPG files and sets their attributes in the tag.
    • automatically resolves relative paths.
  • An anchor tag creation tool...
    • automatically resolves relative paths.
  • Meta tag creation tools.
  • Table creation tools.
    • Import tab and comma-delimited files and create customized tables.
    • Insert blank tables.
    • Select tab or comma-delimited text and convert to a customized table.
• Auto-creation of ordered and unordered lists.
• Ability to view the active document in a browser of the user's choice, including option to use http://localhost when running a local web server (such as Personal Web Server).