Visual editor

A visual editor, or full-screen editor is computer software for editing text files using a textual or graphical user interface which displays the content (text) in an easy to view form.

If the text contains markup code (such as HTML or Wikitext) that would normally display on a web-page, the visual editor hides the actual HTML commands, and shows instead what the web-page would look like when properly formatted. Edits made to the page appear in real time, correctly formatted, and is 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 re-fresh-able display device and all editors with a GUI are visual. Editors that are running through a command-line interpreter, however, may or may not be.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "Definition of visual editor". PCMAG. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
^ 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)
^ Smith, Bud E. (2009-03-11). Creating Web Pages For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-44002-5.

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[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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