May 19, 2010  Download CSSEdit for Mac free. CSSEdit makes editing stylesheets easy and intuitive.

there is a better way to learn about others CSS. install firefox (some of these tools work in camino and some don't, so better just to install firefox) and add the Web Developer extension.

tinker with the admired site's CSS to your heart's content. see your changes in real time. when satisfied copy the modified CSS out into the text editor of your choice.

free and more impressive than CSS Edit.

whiterabbit is charging too much for some primitive CSS visualisation features. if you would like another tool to help with web and CSS chores, there's a lot more joy to be had in $20 of skEdit.

white rabbit is a sharp designer however.

you'd do better to steal his CSS than buy his editor.

CSSEdit quickly became my righthand utility (next to BBEdit) when I started moving into standards-based web development. Some purists (a title that I often put on myself) may feel that the gui may get in the way or handicap the user but the fluid interchange between gui and text editing (text with intelligent autofill features that really work well) has kept it in my arsenal months after I've become familiar with the syntax and no longer need the gui for editing. The grouping and quickfiltering against style names and source alone is well worth the price for managing large stylesheets.
Stylemaster, too, is a powerful editor with many of the same features and even a few others. I feel that both could serve equally as well but stylemaster was a bit harder to learn and I had already become very familiar with CSSEdit.
You can slam it all ya want or claim that text-based-only editing is the *only* way to go but this is the only tool I've found that will help ease novices into the new world of standards-based CSS designs while simultaneously offering power-users all of the editing shortcuts and direct-editing features that they need. The searching and organizational features are icing on the cake that increase productivity tremendously. Give this piece of software a try, it's well worth $20. In retrospect, I think it's worth considerably more considering it's polish and utlility.
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I also use the WebDeveloper plugin, but only for the contextual menus (validate, outline, etc)

But for CSS, I *heart* the EditCSS plugin for Firefox/Mozilla available free http://editcss.mozdev.org/.

Enjoy.

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'Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees; then, names the streets after them.' - Bill Vaughn

Cey.ebook download mastering autocad for mac. Style Master also costs $35 more than CSSEdit, which is far too much to justify getting it over MacRabbit's app.

Stylemaster is also worth far more than the $60 you pay for it. If you are serious about CSS then go for Stylemaster. If you are just tinkering then go with the cheaper options.

I hadn't found StyleMaster in my search for a CSS editor. However, I just downloaded it and spent a few minutes with it. It's clearly well done, but I have a couple issues with it that still leave me preferring CSSEdit.
First, and biggest, is the fact that you can only display one 'editor' box at a time. So if you're laying out a top-level style with font, border, position, background, etc., you'll be switching between the various editors quite a bit -- unless, and this is clearly the leaning of the program -- you prefer to work in text mode, where you just type your style info directly. CSSEdit manages to cleanly make all of the editors available with a mouse click; granted, you can change the editor in StyleMaster with a button click, but it's visually slower and more distracting with the drawer.
Second, as noted above, it's over 2x more costly than CSSEdit.
I also checked out the freebie Firefox extensions (since I use Firefox all the time), and they are useful .. but they won't replace CSSEdit for me, since they are *not* intuitive and don't make it easy to understand the CSS syntax. But they are great for looking at a site's CSS, and I love the other features in the Web Developer extension.
-rob.

I've used this program for about a year and I have to say it's a godsend. I have a lot of other things on my plate so I can't do web design full time and CSSEdit has let me get rid of tables entirely. I have the full Macromedia 2004 suite, but CSSEdit + skEdit is now my toolbox of choice.
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rob wrote 'the demo mode is restricted to saving CSS files of 2500 characters or less'

product page says 'Demo limitations - The CSSEdit demo is fully functional for you to explore, but saving is limited to style sheets containing less than 2499 characters.'

You could, of course, paste out to your favourite text editor..

A handy tool!

(I teach stats)

Drat, off by two characters :).
-rob.

Trying to copy text out of an unregistered CSSEdit will paste somewhat random text. You can only paste text into but not out of CSSEdit.

I actually registered CSSEdit last week. It's a great app. Also check out Style Master.

I've considered purchasing CSSEdit but I don't know if it's worth the cost. I'm very fluent in CSS already so I'd mostly use CSSEdit for the nice display and so I don't have to hit up Eric Meyer's CSS 2 Reference page as much (for when I forget the exact name of an attribute, or the list of accepted values, etc).
That's why I haven't bought it yet. And because of the 2500 character limit, I haven't used it much yet either (since my CSS pages are generally of a decent size.
Is it worth the $25 for somebody already very fluent in CSS?
And no, I'm not even considering Style Master. I can't imagine what it could possibly do that makes it worth $60.

I've always wondered if it could be worth $60. The tutorials that WesternCiv has are really good for learning the purpose of CSS, though.

Style Master would be terribly overpriced, but it includes a fantastic package of CSS tutorial and reference which is built into the program. That's what makes it worthwhile. It's like having a teacher with you.
Granted most of us doing this work professionally now know most of the stuff in those tutorials off by heart. But for somebody beginning with CSS or early intermediate, they are a godsend.
On the other hand, CSSEdit has no value-added. It doesn't teach or explain or troubleshoot or have any built-in snippets for box model hacks. It is just a slightly customised variant of the Cocoa text-edit tools slanted towards CSS display. And it's just not as stable as BBEdit or any of the serious text editing applications. Hard editing can bring CSSEdit down at just the most inopportune time.
At a slightly lower price, it would be a nice add-on. Another way to view one's CSS when bored of looking at in the conventional way.

The trouble with any CSS editor is that I invariably end up having to do browser sniffing and delivering different content for different browsers using PHP. So to edit a style sheet, I end up having to use a PHP editor rather than a CSS editor.

The trouble with any CSS editor is that I invariably end up having to do browser sniffing and delivering different content for different browsers using PHP. So to edit a style sheet, I end up having to use a PHP editor rather than a CSS editor.