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A HTML editor assists the user in writing HTML code for webpages. 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 quick inserting of HTML tags, 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. A WYSIWYG editor does not require the user to have any HTML knowledge, which makes it a lot easier for the average computer user to create a Web site. But these editors are also heavily criticized by Web specialists mainly for two reasons:
WYSIWYG editor usually fail to adhere to these rules. This has been the main point of criticism since the first introduction of this editors. But on the other hand they have greatly improved on this point since then.
HTML is not WYSIWYG
It is very difficult even for advanced HTML coders to write a visual appealing Web site that looks the same on every Web browser, for two reasons:
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