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What is the difference between a WYSIWYG editor and a source editor?
When choosing an HTML editor, a user's first consideration is whether or
not he or she desires working directly with the HTML tags or not. If an HTML editor works directly with the HTML
tags, it is called a source editor. Source editors can be, in fact, any program that edits plain text. For example,
SimpleText for the Macintosh and WordPad for Windows are both very simple plain text editors; however, they can
also function as a source HTML editor.
The other type of HTML editor is called a WYSIWYG editor. WYSIWYG stands for
What You See Is What You Get. Although this concept seems much better, a way to create web pages without having
to muck around in the confusing tags, I have yet to find such an editor that does not occasionally force the user
to tidy up by tweaking the actual tags here and there. In fact, most WYSIWYG editors also include source views
so that the user can create a page using either, or both, means.
For links to a huge variety of both types of HTML editors, visit the HTML
editor resource page.
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