JavaScript editor

A JavaScript editor is computer software that allows the editing of program source code for the JavaScript language with features that make it easier to produce correctly functioning objects and functions. Editors for JavaScript typically color and arrange the indentation of the program as the programmer types them in. Other common features of editors include:
* "intelligent completion" — displaying a list of words beginning with the letters already typed and allowing the person using the editor to select between options or continue typing
* execution of the program one line at a time or using checkpoints
* browser previews
* editing of HTML pages with a visual interface (allowing, e.g., changing text to bold or italic by highlighting the word and pressing a screen button)
* integration with other source languages, such as HTML and PHP showing colorized text for those languages, too
* syntax validation
Web pages that use JavaScript often are described as DHTML (a.k.a., Dynamic HTML) if they change their appearance as the mouse moves around or AJAX pages if they use JavaScript in conjunction with asynchronous communication with the server (meaning that a portion of the web page is not required to be loaded at the same time as the rest of the page, usually delayed until a triggered event such as a mouse-click or mouse-over) and the underlying grammar of communication is XML. Other editors with a wider focus--such as AJAX support--accommodate multiple languages at the same time (including JavaScript).

List of editing programs

by Yaldex Software
1st JavaScript Editor is an advanced JavaScript editor, validator, and debugger.

The editor also provides syntax highlighting and IntelliSense for HTML, CSS, VBScript, PHP and ASP. The built-in JavaScript debugger allows you run and debug JavaScript code one line at a time.

The Yaldex web site indicates the editor includes an advanced Ajax Editor.

Antechinus JavaScript Editor Professional by C Point
JavaScript Editor allows you to write, test, debug and execute JavaScript code from the integrated environment, with the comprehensive support for PHP, HTML, XHTML, CSS, AJAX and XML. JavaScript Editor features Intellisense/auto-complete, syntax coloring, multi-browser support, code formatter/beautifier, JavaScript validator, debugger and interpreter, code collapsing and resource manager. Switch between code and visual editing. Includes step-by-step tutorials.

Aptana Jaxer and Aptana Studio
Free and open source editing programs from Aptana that use scripting languages (JavaScript, Ruby and PHP) for web page and Ajax development. Aptana Studio is an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for building Ajax web applications. Aptana Jaxer is an open source Ajax web server for building web pages and applications using a unified Ajax model where both client-side and server-side code can be written in JavaScript.

===JavaScript Plus! by VBSoftware ===
JavaScript Plus! is an advanced JavaScript editor for Microsoft Windows. Allows you to create and edit JavaScript, CSS, HTML, XHTML code, while integrated tools enable you to validate, reuse, navigate, and deploy your code in an efficient and sophisticated manner.

SplineTech JavaScript Debugger PRO by Spline Technologies Corp
SplineTech JavaScript Debugger PRO is a JavaScript debugger and editor that enables you to edit and debug JavaScript and VBScript inside HTML pages. Client-Side JavaScript, JScript and VBScript debugging languages are fully supported for simple and complex HTML and DHTML debugging scenarios.

Oxygen JavaScript Editor
Create & Edit JavaScript documents Cross platform easy to use.

JSEclipse
Javascript plugin for the Eclipse environment. Its benefits are visible from the simplest tasks like editing small sections of code for your site to the more complex ones like working with the next big AJAX library.

IntelliJ IDEA
IntelliJ IDEA provides advanced support for JavaScript code editing, including many of the useful features Java developers have become accustomed to.

CodeThat
CodeThat Studio is a tool that enables you to create JavaScript widgets.

Spket IDE by Spket Studio
Development Tool for RIA. Support for JavaScript, XUL/XBL, Laszlo, SVG and Yahoo! Widget development. It can run as a standalone application or as an Eclipse plugin.

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