Visual editor

This article is about WYSIWYG editors, which display the final form of marked-up text. For full-screen text editors, see Full-screen writing program. For the MediaWiki editor used on Wikipedia, see VisualEditor.

A visual editor is computer software for editing text files using a textual or graphical user interface that normally renders the content (text) in accordance with embedded markup code, e.g., HTML, Wikitext, rather than displaying the raw text. Edits made to the page appear in real time, correctly formatted, and are often referred to as WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). It is common for the software to permit switching to source-code editor mode so that the original source code can be viewed or modified.[1][2][3]

By definition, all visual editors require a refreshable display device. However, some editors[a] using such devices, e.g., BRIEF, ISPF, gVim, KEDIT, THE, XEDIT, are not visual editors.

  1. ^ "Definition of visual editor". PCMAG. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
  2. ^ Silvestrini, Stefano (Dec 2007). Xoops - To Create Dynamic Web Sites Simply. Stefano Silvestrini. ISBN 978-0-9762432-3-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  3. ^ Smith, Bud E. (2009-03-11). Creating Web Pages For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-44002-5.


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