Questions tagged [wysiwyg]

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) describes editors for graphical design which commonly do not require knowledge of the code underlying the product. The editor translates the user's edits back into a markup language such as HTML. Examples include Microsoft Visual Studio, Adobe Dreamweaver's design view and many CMS editors.

Description

A WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), is a term to describe an online, desktop, or any mean of editor on any platform with embedded previewing. It includes buttons for text styles such as bold, italic, etc., as well as for inserting elements such as links and tables.

The underlying code is (usually) invisible to the common user. They see only the result in the editor, which works as a preview for the outcome.

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What's the best WYSIWYG editor when using the ASP.NET MVC Framework?

Was wondering what the best WYSIWYG editor that I can embed in a web-site based on the ASP.NET MVC Framework? Ideally it should be Xhtml compliant and allow users to embed images etc. The only one I've used before is the FCKEditor, how well does…
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WYSIWYG GUI builder (IDE) for JQuery or other JavaScript framework?

Are there any IDE's that allow building of web pages / user interface using javascript frameworks such as JQuery in a WYSIWYG manner? For example, similar to how Dreamweaver allows you to build HTML pages or NetBeans allows you to graphically design…
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Am I crazy? (How) should I create a jQuery content editor?

Ok, so I created a CMS mainly aimed at Primary Schools. It's getting fairly popular in New Zealand but the one thing I hate with a passion is the largely bad quality of in browser WYSIWYG editors. I've been using KTML (made by InterAKT which was…
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Alternatives to CKEditor for WSYIWYG text area editor

Me and my company are looking for an alternative to CKEditor to use in our CMS. Preferably we would like something a bit more up to date and significantly more lightweight. We're a rails 3.2 shop, so something that integrates easily with rails would…
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Contenteditable div vs. iframe in making a rich-text/wysiwyg editor

i'm trying to weigh the pros and cons of using a
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