Recently, somebody suggested I take a look at CSSEdit by MacRabbit. As a regular user of MacRabbit’s Espresso, I had no qualms with downloading the trial version to take a look. The rest, as they say, is history.

I played with the application for less than 5 minutes before deciding to purchase a license. Why? The preview screen works in real time to show me the effect a change has made as soon as I press a key.

Changing a color? It changes as soon as I press the delete key to remove the first character of the hex code. Adjusting a column’s width? It changes as soon as I enter the number of pixels.

That’s it. There are more features that I haven’t even looked at yet, but the instant preview alone was enough to convince me. No more saving the document and refreshing the browser. Not only that, but the changes are all made in a second version of the document meaning that the original stylesheet isn’t touched until I decide to do so.

If you’re a regular stylesheet editor, do yourself a favor and have a look at CSSEdit. You won’t regret it.