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Any text editor will do. If you plan to use non-ascii characters in string, your text editor should support [[UTF-8]].

[[Notepad++]] is recommended for [[Windows]] users, since it can:

* highlight Javascript code

* quickly insert standard Javascript keywords and methods with Ctrl-Enter

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* [[Code folding]]

[[OS X]] users should look into one of these free editors:

For debugging in [[Firefox]] you can use Tools → Javascript Console which shows all Javascript and CSS errors. [http://getfirebug.com/ FireBug] is strongly recommended for convenient debugging.

* [[Xcode]]

* [[JEdit]] (cross-platform)

* [[Komodo Edit]] (cross-platform)

* [[Aptana Studio]] (cross-platform)

Or one one of these paid editors:

* [[TextMate]]

* [[Coda (web development software)|Coda]]

* [[PhpStorm]] (cross-platform, a free license for MediaWiki Developers is also available<ref>http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2010-June/034396.html</ref>)

Most Linux distributions come with a text editor capable of being used for development such as [[gedit]] or [[Kate (text editor)|Kate]].

For debugging in [[Firefox]] you can use Tools → Javascript Console which shows all Javascript and CSS errors. [http://getfirebug.com/ FireBug] is strongly recommended for convenient debugging.

For debugging in [[Google Chrome|Chrome]] and [[Chromium (web browser)|Chromium]] you can use Tools → Developer Tools.

For debugging in [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]] open up Safari → Preferences → Advanced and enable the "Show Develop menu in menu bar" option. Afterwards you can use Develop → Show Web Inspector to open up the development tools.

For debugging in [[Opera browser|Opera]] you can use Tools → Advanced → Error Console which shows all Javascript and CSS errors. [http://dragonfly.opera.com/ Dragonfly] is strongly recommended for convenient debugging.

For debugging in IE see [httphttps://blogs.msdn.com/iethemes/archiveblogs/2004generic/10/26/247912post.aspx?WeblogApp=jscript&y=2008&m=03&d=13&WeblogPostName=jscript-debugger-in-internet-explorer-8&GroupKeys= IEBlog:JScript Scripting DebuggingDebugger in Internet Explorer 8]

For debugging in IE before version 8 see [http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2004/10/26/247912.aspx IEBlog: Scripting Debugging in Internet Explorer]

== DHTML methods ==