visual editor

See-while-you-create tool

A visual editor lets you modify content by directly manipulating what you see on screen, rather than writing code or markup.

You format text by clicking buttons or selecting from menus, seeing changes instantly: The visual editor shows your blog post exactly as it will appear to readers.

Sometimes called WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors, they contrast with code editors where you work with raw HTML or other markup languages.

Related

canvas · cursor · undo · redo · clipboard · paste · font · bold · italic · highlight · resize · layers · preview · publish · blocks · widgets · template · interface

Opposites
interface type

visual editortext editor

Program for modifying plaintext

CLI · code editor · terminal · console · shell

editing abstraction level

visual editorHTML editor

Webpage markup writing tool

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