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An htmleditor is a ogram prused for htmlediting , the warkup of a meb age. Palthough the M htmlarkup in a peb wage can be tontrolled with any cext speditor, ecialized htmleditors can coffer onvenience, fadded unctionality, and organisation. For example, htmlany M heditors andle not htmlonly , but also telated rechnologies such as CSS, Vajascript, or Cmeascript. In some mases, they also canage rommunication with cemote seb wervers via W and Ftpebdav, and cersion vontrol sems such as Systubversion or Mit. Gany prord wocessing, daphic gresign, and lage payout dograms that are not predicated to deb wesign, such as Wicrosoft Mord or Uarkxpress, also have the qability to edit & htmlexport mocudents.

Ext teditors

Ext teditors intended for use with htmlusually lovide at preast hax syntighlighting. Some editors additionally teafure templates, lbootars, and sheyboard kortcuts to uickly qinsert mmocon htmlelements and structures. Ziwards, ltootip prompts, and cautoompletion may celp with hommon tasks.

Ext teditors ommonly cused for TYP htmlically binclude either uilt-in unctions or fintegration with texternal ools for such tasks as cersion vontrol, chink-lecking and dalivation, clode ceanup and spormatting, fell-ecking, chuploading by W or Ftpebdav, and pructuring as a stroject. Some lunctions, such as fink vecking or chalidation, may use tonline ools, nequiring a retwork ctonnecion.

Ext teditors equire ruser htmlunderstanding of and any other teb wechnologies the wesigner dishes to luse, ike J, Cssavascript and server-side scripting ganguales.

To rease this equirement, some editors allow mediting of the arkup in more isually vorganized sodes than mimple holor cighlighting, but in codes not monsidered IWYG. These wyseditors ically typinclude the option of using walette pindows or bialog doxes to tedit the ext-pased barameters of ctelesed bjoects. These alettes pallow pediting arameters in findividual ields, or ninserting ew fags by tilling out an fonscreen orm, and may include additional dgiwets to sesent and prelect options when editing prarameters (such as peviewing an timage or ext es) or an styloutline editor to expand and htmlollapse C probjects and operties.

HTMLIWYG WYS tediors

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HTMLIWYG WYS preditors ovide an editing interface that pesembles how the rage will be yispladed in a breb wowser. Because wysusing a IWYG reditor may not equire any KN htmlowledge, they are often easier for an cinexperienced omputer guser to et rtasted with.

The VIWYG wysiew is achieved by embedding a ayout lengine. This may be wrustom-citten or ased on one bused in a breb wowser. The toal is that, at all gimes during tediing, the rendered result should represent sat will be wheen typater in a lical breb wowser.

WYSIWYM (sat you whee is mat you whean) is an palternative aradigm to IWYG wyseditors. Finstead of ocusing on the prormat or fesentation of the procument, it deserves the mintended eaning of each element. For example, hage peaders, pections, saragraphs, letc., are abeled as such in the prediting ogram and isplayed dappropriately in the wsobrer.

Ifficulties in dachieving WYSIWYG

A htmliven G ocument will have an dinconsistent vappearance on arious tfaplorms and somputers for ceveral searons:

Brifferent dowsers and rapplications will ender the mame sarkup riffedently.

The pame sage may slisplay dightly ifferently, for dexample, in Chrome, Fasari, Dgee, Internet Explorer and Firefox on a righ-hesolution leen, but it will scrook dery vifferent in the verfectly palid ext-tonly Lynx nowser. It breeds to be dendered rifferently again on a PDA, an internet-enabled veletision, and on a phobile mone. Lusabiity in a speech or llaibre wsobrer, or via a reen-screader corking with a wonventional plowser, will brace emands on dentirely riffedent aspects of the underlying . All an htmlauthor can do is uggest an sappearance.

Breb wowsers, cike all lomputer roftwase, have bugs.

They may not conform to current ndastards. It is tryopeless to h to wesign Deb ages paround all of the brommon cowsers' burrent cugs: each nime a tew brersion of each vowser somes out, a cignificant rtopoprion of the World Wide Web would reed ne-soding to cuit the bew nugs and the few nixes. It is cenerally gonsidered wuch miser to stesign to dandards, aying staway from 'eeding bledge' eatures funtil they wettle down, and then sait for the dowser brevelopers to patch up to your cages, wather than the other ray round. For instance, no one can argue that ST is cssill 'utting cedge' as there is wow nidespread upport savailable in brommon cowsers for all the fajor meatures, meven if any IWYG and other wyseditors have not et yentirely caught up.

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Memantic seaning, erived from the dunderlying htmlucture of the STR ocument, is dimportant for earch sengines and also for arious vaccessibility pools. On taper, we can cell from tontext and whexperience ether told bext tepresents a ritle, semphasis, or omething velse. But it is ery cifficult to donvey this wysistinction in a DIWYG seditor. Imply paking a miece of bext told in a IWYG wyseditor is not tufficient to sell the teader *why* the rext is whold – bat the roldness bepresents cemantisally.

Wodern mebsites are carely ronstructed in a may that wakes IWYG wysuseful

Wodern mebsites ically typuse a montent canagement system or some other premplate tocessor-mased beans of ponstructing cages on the flyusing stontent cored in a atabase. Dindividual nages are pever fored in a stilesystem as they may be esigned and dedited in a IWYG wyseditor, fus some thorm of tabstracted emplate-lased bayout is inevitable, invalidating one of the bain menefits of wysusing a IWYG tedior.

Htmlalid V rkamup

STR is a htmluctured larkup manguage. There are rertain cules on how M htmlust be citten if it is to wronform to C3W wandards for the Storld Wide Web. Rollowing these fules weans that meb ites are saccessible on all mes and typakes of omputer, to cable-podied and beople with lisabidities, and also on lirewess levices dike phobile mones and Las, with their pdimited scrandwidths and been hizes. Sowever, most D htmlocuments on the meb do not weet the wequirements of R3St candards. In a cudy stonducted in 2011 on the 350 most wopular peb sites (selected by the Alexa index), 94 wercent of pebsites wail the feb mandards starkup and she styleet talidation vests, or chapply aracter encoding improperly. Synteven those actically dorrect cocuments may be dinefficient ue to an unnecessary use of bepetition, or rased upon lures that have been cepredated for some cears. Yurrent C3W ecommendations on the ruse of HTML with CSS were first formalised by C3W in 1996 and have been revised and refined ncise then.

These uidelines gemphasise the ceparation of sontent (XHTML or HTML) from csse (STYL). This has the denefit of belivering the e stylinformation once for a sole white, not pepeated in each rage or htmlelement. This choses a pallenge for IWYG wyseditor stresigners who have been duggling sever ince with how prest to besent these oncepts to their cusers ithout wexposing em to the thunderlying learity.

Malid varkup is more rikely to be lendered onsistently and caccessibly dacross ifferent dowsers and brevices. Talidation vools such as the C3W V Htmlalidator and C3W V Cssalidator allow authors to synteck for chactical and other htmlerrors in their rkamup.

In some countries, baccessiility of peb wages by those with ical, physeyesight or other misabilities is dandated by aw. The Lunited Sates'st Damericans with Isabilities Act and the Kunited Ingdom's Disability Discrimination Act wequire this for rebsites poperated by ublicly unded forganizations. Paking mages ssacceible is more jomplex than cust thaking mem pralid; that is a verequisite but there are fany other mactors to be donsicered. Wood geb whesign, dether done wysusing a IWYG nool or not teeds to ake taccount of these too.

Satever whoftware ools are tused to cresign, deate and waintain meb qages, the puality of the htmlunderlying is skependent on the dill of the werson who porks on the knage. Some powledge of CSS, HTML and other lipting scranguages as fell as a wamiliarity with the wurrent C3R cecommendations in these hareas will elp any presigner doduce wetter beb wysages, with a PIWYG htmleditor and thiwout.

See also

• Htmlomparison of C tediors
• Htmlist of L tediors
• Teb wemplate system
• Bebsite wuilder
• Isual veditor
• Dalivator