The 5 Best WYSIWYG HTML Editors

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A WYSIWYG (pronounced "wiz-ee-wig") editor or program is one that allows a developer to see what the end result will look like while the interface or document is being created. WYSIWYG is an acronym for "what you see is what you get".

 An HTML WYSIWYG editor conceals the markup and allows the Web page developer to think entirely in terms of how the content should appear. One of the trade-offs, however, is that an HTML WYSIWYG editor sometimes inserts the markup code it thinks is needed all on its own. Then, the developer has to know enough about the markup language to go back into the source code and clean it up.

 The first true WYSIWYG editor was a word processing program called Bravo. Invented by Charles Simonyi at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s, it became the basis for Simonyi work at Microsoft and evolved into two other WYSIWYG applications called Word and Excel.


Adobe Dreamweaver (Windows/Mac, Paid)

Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool developed by Adobe Systems. Dreamweaver was created by Macromedia in 1997 and was maintained by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.
 Dreamweaver has offered WYSIWYG editing since 1997 when the web was a maze of tiled backgrounds, electric blue links, and blinking GIFs. Dreamweaver offers hybrid editing, you can work completely in WYSIWYG mode without ever seeing a bit of code, you can work directly in the code only switching over to preview your work, or you can work in a dual-pane environment to take advantage of WYSIWYG and hand-coding simultaneously. Dreamweaver is extensible with dozens of free and commercial plug-ins available for everything from web effects and widgets to shopping carts and image galleries.
Kompozer (Windows/Mac/Linux, free)


KompoZer is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor based on the now-discontinued Nvu editor. KompoZer is maintained as a community-driven fork and is a project on Sourceforge. KompoZer's WYSIWYG editing capabilities are one of the main attractions of the software. 
In addition, KompoZer allows direct code editing as well as a split code-graphic view. The current pre-release is KompoZer 0.8 beta 3, released in February 2010, using Gecko 1.8.1. The stable version was 0.7.10, released in August 2007. The only regular developer said in June 2011 that development "is stalled at the moment".

Microsoft Expression Web(Windows, Paid)




Microsoft Expression Web, code-named Quartz, is an HTML editor and general web design software product by Microsoft. It is available free of charge from Microsoft and is a component of the discontinued Expression Studio. Expression Web can design and develop web pages using HTML5, CSS  ASP.NET, PHP, JavaScript, XML+XSLT and XHTML. 
Expression Web 4 requires .NET Framework 4.0 and Silverlight 4.0 to install and run. Expression Web uses its own standards-based rendering engine which is different from Internet Explorer's Trident engine. Expression Web is Microsoft's current offering in the WYSIWYG arena (the popular but much-maligned FrontPage was retired in 2003). 

CoffeeCup(Windows, Paid)




CoffeeCup HTML Editor is an HTML editor . Originally created by Nicholas Longo and Kevin Jurica, it was first released to the public in August 1996. Until version 12.5 released in 2012, it was capable of WYSIWYG editing. CoffeeCup software does a great job of providing what their customers want for a low price. The CoffeeCup HTML editor is a great tool for Web designers. It comes with lots of graphics, templates, and extra features, like the CoffeeCup image mapper.

Flux(Mac, Paid)


Flux is a Mac-based WYSIWYG editor that has received high praise for being a powerful editor with a reasonable price tag. Flux's interface offers a fine degree of control over editing everything from the margins and padding to overall size of your element including altering CSS code with simple mouse movements.
"Flux has a great Code Editor that's better than ever before. Importantly, Flux has no distinction between generated and hand-crafted code, so you can still use the WYSIWYG stuff, even on the code you've typed yourself Flux has a great Code Editor that's better than ever before. Importantly, Flux has no distinction between generated and hand-crafted code, so you can still use the WYSIWYG stuff, even on the code you've typed yourself"

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