The original Notepad shipped with Windows is probably the handiest software of all times, small, fast, without frills! Notepad2 tries to follow this principle, it's a small, fast and free text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages.
Features:
Customizable syntax highlighting:
HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, PHP, CSS, Perl/CGI
C/C++, C#, Java, VB, Pascal, Assembler, SQL, Python, NSIS
INI, REG, INF, BAT, DIFF
Drag & drop text editing inside and outside Notepad2
Basic regular expression search and replace
Useful word, line and block editing shortcuts
Rectangular selection (Alt+Mouse)
Brace matching, auto indent, long line marker, zoom functions
Support for Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac text files
Open shell links
Mostly adjustable
Whats New in version 1.0:
Full installation package
Improved documentation file (CHM file)
Association with Notepad2.chm instead of metapath.exe
Updating Scintilla from 161 to 165
Improved configuration (imported from config.reg file)
Default Encoding: UTF-8
Showing line numbers
Font: Fixedsys (Windows98/ME-notepad font)
No italic strings (PHP variables.. etc)
Improved toolbar buttons scheme
Context menu: Open with Notepad2
IE: Viewing source code using Notepad2
Distinct toolbar icons
Menu toolbar:
Moving (Encoding) and (Line Ending) from (File) menu to (Edit) menu
Adding (Help Topics) menu item to (Help) menu
(Help>About) instead of (?>info)
(About) box: GPL 2.0 notification

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this text editor software.