HTML editor Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
An HTML editor assists the user in writing HTML code for web pages. Although HTML code can be written and edited with any text editor, a special HTML editor is designed to be more convenient. Additionally HTML editors generally provide some assistance for creating Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
There are two flavors of HTML editors: text and WYSIWYG.
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Text editors
The text editors usually provide syntax highlighting, toolbars and keyboard shortcuts for quickly inserting HTML elements, assistants for some jobs or easy preview in the browser. Assistants are usually provided for more cumbersome tasks like adding the basic page construct or creating tables.
Text editors require at least a basic understanding of HTML and CSS for creating Web sites.
WYSIWYG editors
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors provide an editing interface which looks the same way as the output displayed in the Web browser. (It may also have a mode to edit the HTML directly like a text HTML editor.) A WYSIWYG editor does not require the user to have any HTML knowledge, to make it easier for the average computer user to create a Web site. But these editors are also criticized for two reasons:
- They sometimes do not write valid HTML code
- The same HTML structure may be rendered differently in different browsers.
Valid HTML code
HTML is a structured markup language. There are certain rules on how valid HTML must be written as defined by the W3C standards. Following these rules allows for sites that are accessible to handicapped people, and also to wireless devices like mobile phones or PDAss.WYSIWYG editors sometimes fail to adhere to these rules, turning out code that works to some degree but is syntactically incorrect. Older versions of Microsoft FrontPage, in particular, were notorious for producing code that would only work properly in Internet Explorer, as (to a lesser degree) was Netscape Composer for Netscape Navigator. Then again, text editors do not provide complete validation for all of these rules either, so valid code still relies on knowledge and accuracy of the coder.
While the "valid HTML" argument still stands, the larger WYSIWYG editors have greatly improved their automated code writing in each version.
This is an Article on HTML editor. Page Contains Information, Facts Details or Explanation Guide About HTML editor Difficulties in achieving WYSIWYG
It is difficult even for advanced HTML coders to write a (visually appealing or otherwise) Web site that looks the same on every Web browser, for several reasons:
In limited cases, what you see may be what you and some other people get, but it is not guaranteed to be what everyone else gets.List of HTML editors
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