WebPad is an HTML editor that doesn't try to take control over your work. Simple context sensitive tag-completion makes it easy to find the right tag, attribute or value, or insert a defined CSS class name, frame name or color. AutoComplete supports XML tag formatting. A built-in spell checker is included, with over 20 language and speciality dictionaries for free download. The Tags menu allows quick keystroke access to the common HTML tags, and the Characters menu makes it easy to insert special characters.

A built-in Color Translator lets you quickly convert between hex, RGB and HTML color notation and finds the nearest 'web-safe' color, and Pixel Picker makes it easy to grab the color of any screen pixel. WebPad also includes a built-in web preview window (using the Microsoft Internet Explorer control installed on your system) and allows easy previewing at a choice of common screen resolutions. A Code Templates option lets you define code snippets that can be inserted by typing a short keyword. A folder bar keeps your files and folders within easy reach for quick file-editing and image-previewing.

WebPad can also download files from Web URLs, and you can save an edited file straight to your website by supplying FTP upload information.

WebPad also includes simple HTML conversion and formatting tools, such as block indent/unindent, convert tags to upper or lower case, or convert HTML to quotable, JavaScript document.write() or ASP response.write(). Intelligent word count options can ignore HTML tags and will report the word-count of any text selected in the document.