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what is wsiwyg this work it is unknown for me

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The OP appears to have meant the visual editor often used on forums and site builders. and already pointed out that this is the type of editor where the editing screen shows formatted content instead of raw markup, and the forum's own post box is a simple example. and touched on the quality differences between editors, and prefers the plain/text input for control.

Key practical points that weren't fully covered above:

  • Not all visual editors are equal. Some focus on ease-of-use and insert lots of inline styles and redundant tags; others aim to produce semantic, lean markup. That difference explains 's complaint about poor output.
  • For reliable results, pick an editor that offers a direct HTML/source view and clean paste options (plain-text or "paste from Word"). Editors that support Markdown or a structured content format tend to give cleaner, easier-to-manage output for sites that separate content from presentation.

Quick workflow to avoid messy output:

  1. Compose or paste into the visual editor using "paste as plain text" when possible.
  2. Switch to source/HTML mode and scan for unnecessary tags or inline styles.
  3. Replace inline formatting with CSS classes in your site templates.
  4. Run a quick HTML tidy/linter before publishing, or let the CMS sanitize the result.

Final note: visual editors are great for speed and non-technical users, but keep a source-mode fallback and use site templates/CSS for layout. That gives both the convenience mentioned by and the control and are wary of.

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Member Avatar for Mushy-pea

WYSIWYG stands for What You See Is What You Get. A WYSIWIG web page editor is an application where you can build a web page a bit like you would build a page on a word processor or desktop publishing app. You place the various items (i.e. text, links, images) where you want them to appear on the page and the editor generates HTML to represent this. When you view one of these pages on a browser it should look just like it did on the editor.

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Member Avatar for roryt

The text box that you filled in to create the post was a wysiwyg editor. It is quite a basic one but that's a good example of it.

Member Avatar for jwenting

More properly it should be called WYSIWYDG (what you see is what you don't get) as pretty much all those tools make a complete mess of things.

Member Avatar for roryt

Well kind of but, the wysiwy(d)g editor I am using now at the precise moment is doing exactly what I want it to do. Although programs like frontpage make a mess of html programs like word do exactly what you want them to do.

Member Avatar for The Dude

I dont bother with the WYSIWYG editor,the standard one is fine for me :)

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