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The WYSIWYG window

The "What You See Is What You Get" window is the one in which the content of the HTML file is displayed graphically. Here, you can easily edit, just type German "Umlaute" and other special characters and see the result at once (as far as possible).

If "Invisible Elements" is activated in the View menu, errors are makred in the HTML source code (Source, see The editor window), by default that means: with yellow color in background. Comments, image maps, ServerSideIncludes, Named Anchors (<a name="xyz">) etc. are displayed as a kind of yellow coat of arms with the respectable sign (e.g. exclamation mark for comments, anchors for named anchors etc.).

In the bottom status bar there are by default (from left to right):

• A list of all tags that are open at the current cursor position (i.e. that have not been closed. If the tag's content is marked completely, the corresponding tag symbol is being displayed bold in the bar. By clicking one of the tag symbols its content is completely marked.
• A popup for defining the window size (for testing different window sizes) - Note: Browser windows usually are somehow smaller as they need also room for their menu- and other bars!
• The estimated download time of all contents of the current page (taken as a basis is the connection at a connect which can be set in "Edit/Preferences/Status Bar")
• A mini version of the launcher window (in the left corner the button for the Site window, in the right the one for the HTML Source editor).

You can reach almost all important functions from the menus of the WYSIWYG window except some which act on the whole Site. For example, to edit the NoFrames area of a frameholder (frameset), you can choose "Modify/Frameset/Edit NoFrames Content" (to return from there back to the frame display as well).
With "Window", you can open and close the individual function windows as you wish - e.g. "Site Files" shows a list of all documents belonging to the current Site in form of a file tree and "Site Map" shows a graph of all pages sorted by their relation to each other. You can also get an overview for the "Frames" (if a frameset has been loaded) and the "Templates".

Jens Hatlak April 9, 2000