editor

Editor is a software that is used to create and modify webpages.

There are two types of Editors:

1. Low-level Web page editors – are used for HTML code modifications.

2. High-level Web page editors – allow to change content you see on the page without code modification.

CMS and E-commerce platforms allow you to edit site content with two editors: Code and Visual editor.

Visual editor is a WYSIWG editor. It lets you edit content you see without code modification. That means the content is shown the same way it will be displaying. CMS and E-commerce platforms come with TinyMCE editor that is opened version of WYSIWG editor. This editor has the same toolbar as you can see in Microsoft Word. This tool allows you to format text.

WordPress:

Joomla:

PrestaShop:

You can see examples of the editors on the images above. You can change font size, color, add tables, columns, etc. using editor tool bar.

Text (HTML) editor is default low-level web page editor. All the modifications should be done in HTML code. It does not have formatting tools, like Visual editor has.

Word Editor has another meaning. Text editor is a computer program designed to make text and code modifications. The most popular text editors are: WordPad, NotePad, Dreamveawer, TextEdit.

An editor may also refer to another program used for the other file format modifications. For example, image editor is used to edit images. The most popular image editing program is Adobe Photoshop.